Iran AH 1033 bisti

Stephen Album sale 37, lot 2623

This specimen was lot 2623 in Stephen Album sale 37 (Santa Rosa, CA, June 2020), where it sold for $446.25. The catalog description^[1] noted, "SAFAVID: 'Abbas I, 1588-1629, AR bisti, Baghdad, AH1033, full date & mint, struck in the year of the Safavid conquest of Baghdad from the Ottoman Empire, EF, RRR." The Ottomans reconquered Baghdad and held it and the province of Iraq until their final collapse at the end of World War One.

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specifications: copper, this specimen 0.79 g.

Catalog reference: A-B2637, type D2 (standard Safavid type), KM-unlisted.

Sources:

• Album, Stephen, Checklist of Islamic Coins, 3rd Ed. Santa Rosa, Stephen Album Rare Coins, 2011.
• ^[1]Album, Stephen, Joseph Lang, Paul Montz, Michael Barry and Norman Douglas Nicol, Auction 37, featuring the Gamal Amer Collection of Egyptian Coins and the Ahmed Sultan Collection of Ottoman Coins, Part II, Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2020.

Link to:

• Iran AH 929 shahi Sari mint
• AH 999 (1591) ½ mithqal, Qazvin mint
• AH 1032 (1622) abbasi, Tiflis mint
• AH 1038 (1628) 1/8 mohur, Isfahan mint
• AH 1040 (1630) abbasi, Tabriz mint
• AH 1040 (1630) abbasi, Tiflis mint
• Coins and currency dated 1623