Ganja AH 1187 abbasi
This specimen was lot 2045 in Steve Album Auction 54 (Santa Rosa, CA, January 2026), where it sold for $228. The catalog description[1] noted, "GANJA: Muhammad Hasan Khan, 1760-1780, AR abbasi, Ganja, AH1187 (for 1178), XF." Ganja is now part of Azerbaijan. This type was struck AH 1175-1188 and the date on this example reads, "١١٨٧". The situation in Iran in the mid eighteenth century was extremely confused as the Safavid empire broke up and the various tribes, including the Afsharids and the Zands, struggled for control. Eventually Agha Mohammad Khan Qajar eliminated all the others and created a new dynasty which lasted until the coming of the Pahlavis. Muhammad Hasan Khan (1742–78) was the second Khan of Ganja from 1768 to 1778 and was tributary to both the Zands and the Georgians.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: 4.60 g, silver, this specimen 4.43 g.
Catalog reference: A-2941, KM-26.
- Album, Stephen, Checklist of Islamic Coins, 3rd Ed. Santa Rosa, Stephen Album Rare Coins, 2011.
- Michael, Thomas, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1701-1800, 7th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2016.
- [1]Album, Stephen, Joseph Lang, Paul Montz, Michael Barry and Hanbing Feng, Auction 54, featuring selections from the Kenneth A. Bovenkamp Collection of Ottoman Coins, Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2025.
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