Iran AH 1115 abbasi KM-A265
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This specimen was lot 467 in Steve Album Auction 54 (Santa Rosa, CA, January 2026), where it sold for $660. The catalog description[1] noted, "IRAN: Ahmad III, 1703-1730, AR abbasi (16 para), Tabriz, AH1115, type A, gorgeous example, overstruck on uncertain host, probably Safavid, XF-AU, ex Kenneth A. Bovenkamp Collection." Tabriz was occupied by the Ottomans 1585-1603, 1618, 1635 and 1722-25. This abbasi was struck by the Turks during this last occupation and backdated. Abbasis struck in AH 1115 weighed 7.39 g but by the 1720's, the abbasi had shrunk to 5.40 g.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: 5.12 g, silver, this specimen 5.07 g.
Catalog reference: A-2707, UBK-23.059.02, KM A265.
- 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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