Rupee - Ibrahim Afshar Type Z, Kerman

Ibrahim Afshar's reign lasted roughly a year before he was deposed and blinded by his own nobles in 1749. He was one of several claimants to scramble for power after Nader Shah's assassination in 1748, and coins issued in his name were struck at a handful of provincial mints — Kerman among them — during a period when central authority had effectively collapsed. Provincial mints operated with considerable independence, and die work from Kerman shows regional idiosyncrasies consistent with that autonomy.

Album's Type Z designation distinguishes specific calligraphic arrangements on the religious formula field, a distinction that matters for attribution given how quickly successive pretenders reused and adapted existing dies.