Iran AH 1335 shahi

from the Stack's Bowers February 2025 Collectors Choice Online Auction, lot 75668

This specimen was lot 75668 in Stack's Bowers Collectors Choice Online Auction (Costa Mesa, CA, February 2025), where it sold for $105. The catalog description^[1] noted, "IRAN. Shahi Sefid, AH 1335 (1916/17). Tehran Mint. Ahmad Shah. NGC MS-64." This type was struck AH 1333-1339 and 1342 and is listed as inexpensive. A rare variety with the reverse legend "Sahib-al-Zaman" (KM 1048) is recorded for the year. One shahi was fifty dinars.

Recorded mintage: 73,000.

Specification: 0.69 g, 0.900 fine silver.

Catalog reference: KM-1047.

Source:

• Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1901-2000, 47th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
• ^[1]Orsini, Matt, Kyle Ponterio and Jeremy Bostwick, February 2025 World Collectors Choice Online Auction - Ancients, World Coins & World Paper Money, David B. Simpson Medals & World Coins Part 1, Selections from the Richard Margolis Collection, and Selections from the L. E. Bruun Collection, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers Galleries, Inc., 2025.

Link to:

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• Coins and currency dated 1916