Shahi - Tahmasp I Safavi Mashhad; Second Eastern Silver Standard

The date range here is misleading at first glance — 935–936 AH covers only two lunar years, yet Tahmasp I reigned for over five decades, making this a narrowly attributed emission within a much longer series. Mashhad's mint gained particular significance under the Safavids as a pilgrimage city housing the shrine of Imam Reza, and royal investment in its mint was partly devotional, partly political — demonstrating Twelver Shia legitimacy through controlled silver output.

The "Second Eastern Silver Standard" designation reflects a documented weight reform, not a geographic curiosity. Album's sequencing of type 2606 places this squarely within Tahmasp's early consolidation period following his father Ismail I's death in 1524.