Falus - Nasir al-Din Shah Tehran mint

The falus occupied the lowest rung of Qajar monetary practice — a denomination so depreciated by mid-century that its copper content routinely exceeded its official exchange value. Nasir al-Din Shah's long reign saw repeated attempts to rationalize the coinage, culminating in the monetary reforms of the 1870s that would effectively render these issues obsolete within a decade of striking.

Tehran mint output for this type is inconsistently documented, and die workmanship varied sharply between workshop batches.