Issuing authority

Safavid Empire

Kind: empire
Region: Middle East, Asia

Objects are filed under the historical authority that actually issued or made them. A recorded period comes from the issuer's own reference description and is left blank where no source states it.

Published entries

Individual types and documented families

With photographs

100%

3 with a credited real-object photo

Dated span

1649 – 1748

3 entries with their own date

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Catalogue entries (3)

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Persia, Shah Abbas II, 1052-1077 AH [=1642-1666], abbasi, 1059

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

modern coins

Persia, Shah Abbas II, 1052-1077 AH [=1642-1666], abbasi, 1059

1649

Silver coin. Obverse: within a circle, Shia kalima [=profession of faith] in Arabic characters in three lines. Around the circle, legend in Arabic characters. Reverse: rhyming couplet in Arabic characters in two lines. Year: 59 above the second line. Below it, mint mark: Tabriz. The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, holds thi…

Documented

Partial type record

Falus from Persia at the time of Shah Husayn, 1105–1135 [=1693–1722], from Tabriz

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

modern coins

Falus from Persia at the time of Shah Husayn, 1105–1135 [=1693–1722], from Tabriz

1693 - 1722

Copper coin. Obverse: peacock with fan-spread tail facing right, surrounded by ornamentation. Reverse: mint mark in Arabic script in three lines. Struck at Tabriz, reverse off-center. The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, holds this object as KOG-MP-1-3811; its record gives material recorded as copper (metal); technique strik…

Documented

Partial type record

10 shahi or rupee from Persia of Ismail III, 1163-1169 AH [=1750-1756], 1167

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

modern coins

10 shahi or rupee from Persia of Ismail III, 1163-1169 AH [=1750-1756], 1167

1748

Silver coin. Obverse: inscription in Arabic characters in two lines, in the left part of the second line, mint mark: Mazandaran. Below it, date: 1167. Reverse: within a circle, Shia kalima [=profession of faith] in Arabic characters in three lines. Around the circle, a wide, smooth rim. Plain edge. The Rijksmuseum,…

Documented

Partial type record

Dated entries by century

17th century2
18th century1

Only the 3 entries carrying their own date to within about 150 years are counted, by the earliest year given. These are catalogue holdings, not production totals.

Materials recorded in the physical descriptions

Silver2
Copper1

An entry made of several materials is counted once under each. Materials are counted only where the description states them.

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