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Coins struck at Isfahan

5 catalogued coins and notes attributed to Isfahan, with weights, legends, dates and Wikimedia-sourced images across Arab-Sasanian & Early Islamic, Timurid & Safavid, Afsharid & Zand.

Catalogued
5
Eras
4
Metals
2
Denominations
2

Arab-Sasanian & Early Islamic · 651 – 1258 CE

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Great Seljuq Gold Dinar

Malik-Shah I

1072–1092 CE

Issued across a vast empire from Anatolia to Transoxiana.

Timurid & Safavid · 1370 – 1736 CE

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Safavid 20 Shahi (Isfahan, 1690)

Shah Suleiman I

AH 1101 / 1690 CE

Heavy ceremonial multiple of the shahi denomination, struck at the Safavid capital. Continues the Shia-doctrinal coinage type first standardised by Shah Ismail I in 1501.

Coin of Shah Sultan Husayn

Sultan Husayn

1694–1722 CE

Last great Safavid issues before the Afghan siege of Isfahan (1722).

Afsharid & Zand · 1736 – 1796 CE

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Nader Shah Silver Rupee — Isfahan

Nader Shah Afshar

AH 1148–1160 / 1736–1747 CE

Struck at the former Safavid capital after Nader took the throne in 1736. Heavy issues from melted Mughal treasure circulated alongside his Indian-mint rupees.

Qajar Dynasty · 1789 – 1925 CE

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Fath-Ali Shah Silver — Isfahan Mint

Fath-Ali Shah Qajar

1797–1834 CE

Isfahan remained one of the principal Qajar mints, continuing the Safavid tradition. Silver issues here carried the heaviest provincial production for the central Iranian plateau.

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