Iran AH 1178 1/4 mohur KM-525.7
This specimen was lot 545 in Stephen Album sale 47 (Santa Rosa, CA, September 2023), where it sold for $240. The catalog description[1] noted, "ZAND: Karim Khan, 1753-1779, AV 1/4 mohur, Shiraz, AH1178, type C, choice EF." Type C quarter mohurs were struck at Isfahan, Kashan, Khoy, Kirman, Mazandaran, Qazvin, Rasht, Shiraz (shown here), Tehran and Yazd altho not every mint struck every date. The Shiraz mint struck this type this year only along with a type D quarter mohur (KM 530.6).
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: 2.75 g, gold, this specimen 2.71 g.
Catalog reference: A-2791, KM 525.7.
- 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]Album, Stephen, Joseph Lang, Paul Montz, Michael Barry and Norman Douglas Nicol, Auction 47, Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2023.
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- AH 1175 quarter mohur, Tabriz mint, Muhammad Hasan Khan
- AH 1177 quarter mohur, Kashan mint
- AH 1178 quarter mohur, Isfahan mint, Karim Khan
- AH 1178 quarter mohur, Kashan mint
- AH 1178 quarter mohur, Kirman mint
- AH 1178 quarter mohur, Rekab mint
- AH 1178 quarter mohur, Kirman mint, Karim Khan
- AH 1178 quarter mohur, Tabriz mint
- AH 1180 abbasi, Yazd mint
- AH 1180 double abbasi, Mazandaran mint
- AH 1180 quarter mohur, Yazd mint
- AH 1180 quarter mohur, Rekab mint
- AH 1180 quarter mohur, Tabriz mint
- AH 1185 quarter mohur, Kashan mint
- AH 1185 quarter mohur, Rasht mint
- AH 1186 quarter mohur, Qazvin mint
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