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Falus - Fat'h Ali Qajar
| Issuer | Qajar Dynasty |
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| Year | 1797-1834 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse lettering | ۴ |
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| Reverse script | Arabic |
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Fat'h Ali Shah's copper falus issues present persistent attribution problems: the Qajar mint system during his reign was decentralized across provincial mints — Tabriz, Isfahan, Tehran, Rasht, and others — each operating with inconsistent supervision and no standardized die control. The same nominal denomination could vary dramatically in weight and module from one mint to the next, sometimes within a single year.
Provincial governors effectively controlled local copper coinage, which invited chronic debasement and short-weighting. Tehran only began asserting tighter centralized mint authority toward the later decades of his reign.