Iran AH 1236 toman KM-753.11
This specimen was lot 1409 in Goldberg Sale 137 (Los Angeles, January 2024), where it sold for $1,560. The catalog description[1] noted, "Iran. Toman, AH1236 (1820). Tabriz mint. Fath Ali Shah, 1797-1834. Arab legend on each side. Pop 1; The only Example graded at PCGS. PCGS graded AU-55." This type was struck at Barujerd (KM 753.1), Hamadan (KM 753.3), Isfahan (KM 753.4), Kashan (KM 753.5), Kirmanshahan (KM 753.7), Qazvin (KM 753.8), Rasht (KM 753.9), Shiraz (KM 753.10), Tabriz (shown here), Yazd (KM 753.13), Yerevan (KM 753.15), Zanjan (KM 753.14) and others. The SCWC lists fourteen mints for this type, struck AH 1231-1240, but lists only AH 1233, 1236 and 1238 for this mint. Later issues were reduced in weight.
Recorded mintage: unknown but a common mint.
Specification: 4.61 g, gold, this specimen 4.54 g.
Catalog reference: Fr-34; KM-753.11.
- 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.
- 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.
- [1]Goldberg, Ira, Stephen Harvey and Vera Kan, Goldberg Sale 137: the Pre-Long Beach Auction, featuring the Peh Family Collection, Los Angeles: Goldberg Coins and Collectibles, 2023.
Link to:
- AH 1234 (1818) rial, Tehran mint
- AH 1234 toman, Isfahan mint
- AH 1234 toman, Kirmanshahan mint
- AH 1234 (1818) toman, Tabriz mint
- AH 1234 (1818) toman, Yazd mint
- AH 1236 toman, Tehran mint
- AH 1237 (1821) toman
- AH 1238 half toman, Tabriz mint
- AH 1238 (1822) toman, Isfahan mint
- Coins and currency dated 1820