Iran AH 1295 kran KM-844

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Steve Album sale 30, lot 643
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This specimen was lot 643 in Stephen Album sale 30 (Santa Rosa, CA, January 2018), where it sold for $440.63. The catalog description[1] noted, "QAJAR: Nasir al-Din Shah, 1848-1896, AR qiran, Tehran, AH1295, on a machine-made planchet, at the reduced weight of one mithqal (average 4.61 g) adopted for the machine-struck qiran, type KM-899, alreadly struck in AH1294 and in quantity from 1296 onwards, choice EF, RRR." The Qajars were a group of Turkic origin who lived in the area of Azerbaijan. They were sympathetic to the Safavids, who ruled in Persia from 1501-1736 AD. The Qajar Dynasty began when Mohammad Khan Qajar seized Mashhad (then under Durrani suzerainty – see Afghanistan) and put an end to the Afsharid Dynasty. The Qajars were forced to fight several defensive wars against Russia, losing territory each time. Foreign powers became more involved in Persia as the strategic nature of the region became clear. The empire was nearly bankrupt by the end of the 1800’s, and the dynasty finally fell when Reza Khan, a commander of the Persian Cossack Brigade, led a coup d’etat and launched the Pahlavi Dynasty in 1925 AD. This silver coin is a scarce one year type struck during the transition to Westernized machine-struck coinage. It would have exchanged for the 1000 dinars denomination.

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: 4.99 g, silver, this specimen 4.62 g.

Catalog reference: A-2938T, KM-844.

Source:

  • 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 30, featuring the George Anderson Collection of Tibetan Coins, the Dr. John W. Lund Collection of Swedish Coins and the Mike Edwards Collection, Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2018.

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