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Mohur Ashrafi - Ibrahim Afshar
| Issuer | Afsharid Dynasty |
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| Year | 1748 |
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| Currency | Shahi (1501-1798) |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is dominated by bold nasta'liq calligraphic legends arranged in multiple registers filling the entire field, invoking the name of the eighth Shi'a Imam, Ali ibn Musa al-Ridha, followed by the mint name Isfahan (Isfahān) and the AH date 1161. Decorative floral or pellet ornaments are visible between text registers, a common embellishment on Afsharid hammered gold coinage. The deeply incised lettering displays the confident, sweeping strokes characteristic of Isfahan mint production during the Afsharid period. The overall design is purely epigraphic with no figurative elements. |
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Ibrahim Afshar ruled for less than a year following the assassination of his cousin Adil Shah in 1748, making his coinage among the rarest of the fractured Afsharid succession. After Nader Shah's murder in 1747, the dynasty collapsed into a brutal contest between rival claimants, with Ibrahim briefly seizing Khorasan before being blinded and deposed by Shah Rukh. Coins attributable specifically to his reign rather than the general Afsharid period command serious attention from specialists precisely because the window of issue was so narrow.