Iran AH 1277 1/8 kran KM 821.8
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This specimen was lot 2266 in Steve Album Auction 51 (Santa Rosa, CA, January 2025), where it sold for $84. The catalog description[1] noted, "QAJAR: Nasir al-Din Shah, 1848-1896, AR bracteate 1/8 qiran, Tabriz, AH1277, struck on rather broad, wafer-thin flan, intended as favors for the New Year celebration and were known as shahi safid, "white shahi," to distinguish them from the copper shahi, VF-XF, R." , struck at Hamadan, Isfahan, Mashhad, Qazvin, Rasht, Shiraz, Sistan, Tabriz (shown here), Tehran. Tabriz is listed for AH 1275 only with a very low catalog value.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specifications: 0.62-0.67 g, silver, this specimen 0.79 g.
Catalog reference: A-2933.1, KM 821.8 (unlisted date).
- Album, Stephen, Checklist of Islamic Coins, 3rd Ed. Santa Rosa, Stephen Album Rare Coins, 2011.
- Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1801-1900, 9th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
- [1]Album, Stephen, Joseph Lang, Paul Montz, Michael Barry and Norman Douglas Nicol, Auction 51, featuring the Howard Daniel III Collection of Asian Coins, the Almer H. Orr III Collection of World Coins and the Joe Sedillot Collection of German Coins, Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2024.
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