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Falus - Nasir al-Din Shah
| Issuer | Iran |
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| Year | 1856-1858 |
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| Thickness | 2.85 mm |
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| Reverse description | The reverse bears a multi-line Persian legend in flowing Nastaliq script, filling the entire field and divided by a horizontal line into upper and lower registers. The upper register contains the royal title and name of the reigning Qajar monarch, Nasir al-Din Shah, while the lower register carries additional titles and epithets in characteristic Qajar coin inscriptions. Small decorative floral rosette ornaments punctuate the text, and a fine beaded or linear border encircles the legend, consistent with standard Qajar copper coinage of the mid-nineteenth century. |
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| Mintage | 1272 (1856) - - 1274 (1858) - - |
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These copper falus were struck during a particularly turbulent stretch of Nasir al-Din Shah's long reign — the Anglo-Persian War of 1856–57 forced British intervention after Iranian troops occupied Herat, ending with the Treaty of Paris and Iran's permanent renunciation of claims to Afghan territory. Copper coinage of this period circulated heavily among the urban poor and bazaar merchants, and surviving examples with meaningful detail are genuinely scarce.