Shahi - Tahmasp I Qandahar, Sixth Western Standard

Tahmasp I held the Safavid throne for over fifty years — the longest reign of any Safavid shah — yet the final decade was marked by near-total withdrawal from governance, the court dominated by factions while the aging shah retreated into religious austerity. Qandahar itself was a perennial flashpoint, passing between Safavid and Mughal control across multiple wars throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. That this mint remained productive under Tahmasp speaks to the city's economic importance regardless of who claimed it politically.

The "Sixth Western Standard" designation reflects a specific weight reform sequence documented by Album, not a geographic classification.