Iran AH 1167 1/3 mohur KM-482

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Sincona sale 88, lot 45

This specimen was lot 45 in Sincona sale 88 (Zürich, May 2024), where it sold for 1,000 CHF (about US$1,322 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,

"IRAN, Hotak Dynasty, Azad Khan, 1163-1170 AH (1750-1757). 1/3 Mohur Ashrafi 1167 AH (1754), Isfahan Mint. Äusserst selten, Leicht bearbeitet; Extremely rare. NGC AU Details. Slightly tooled."

This type was struck AH 1167-1168. The Hotak dynasty were Pashtuns from Afghanistan who briefly conquered an empire including eastern Iran and most of Pakistan before being overthrown by Nadir Shah. Azad Khan was a later chieftain who attempted to reestablish Hotak hegemony. Wikipedia comments, "Azād Khān Afghān (Pashto: آزاد خان افغان‎), or Azād Shāh Afghān (آزاد شاه افغان) (died 1781), was a Pashtun military commander and a major contender for supremacy in western Iran after the death of Nader Shah Afshar in 1747. Azad rose to power between 1752 and 1757, and controlled part of the Azerbaijan region up to Urmia city, northwestern and northern Persia, and parts of southwestern Turkmenistan and eastern Kurdistan. Azad was a contemporary of Ahmad Shah Durrani, the founder of the Durrani Empire." Of Azad Khan's rivals, the Qajars were in the mountains south of the Caspian Sea and the Durrani lurked in the east, in Afghanistan. The Zand realm was disintegrating in central Iran. This type was struck only at Isfahan.

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: 3.65 g, gold, this specimen 3.57 g.

Catalog reference: Album 2724, KM 482.

Source:

  • Album, Stephen, Checklist of Islamic Coins, 3rd Ed. Santa Rosa, Stephen Album Rare Coins, 2011.
  • Friedberg, Arthur L. and Ira S. Friedberg, Gold Coins of the World, From Ancient Times to the Present, 9th ed., Clifton, NJ: Coin and Currency Institute, 2017.
  • Michael, Thomas, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1701-1800, 7th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2016.
  • [1]Richter, Jürg, SINCONA Auction 88, The Kian Collection - Part II, Zürich: SINCONA AG, 2024.

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