Iran AH 945 shahi

Steve Album sale 38, lot 2433

This specimen was lot 2433 in Stephen Album sale 38 (Santa Rosa, CA, September 2020), where it sold for $154.70. The catalog description^[1] noted, "SAFAVID: Tahmasp I, 1524-1576, AR shahi, Kirman, AH945, countermarked with mint & date on type A-2596, EF on Fine host, RR, ex Jim Farr Collection." Steve Album notes that this type was also struck at Isfahan, Shiraz and Kashan. The host type is common, the countermark rare.

Specification: 6.22 g, silver, this specimen 6.23 g.

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Catalog reference: A-2611P.

Source:

• Album, Stephen, Checklist of Islamic Coins, 3rd Ed. Santa Rosa, Stephen Album Rare Coins, 2011.
• ^[1]Album, Stephen, Joseph Lang, Paul Montz, Michael Barry and Norman Douglas Nicol, Auction 38, featuring the Dabestani Collection of Persian Coins, Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2020.

Links to:

• Iran AH 929 shahi Sari mint
• AH 930 1/6 mithqal, Shiraz mint
• Iran AH 941 1/2 mithqal, Tabriz mint
• Iran (1576-78) 2 shahi
• AH 969 quarter mithqal, Yazd mint
• AH 989 (1581) mithqal, Kashan mint
• Coins and currency dated 1538