Specimen record
saf-013
Saf-013 Safavid Dynasty, Tahmasp I (AH 930-984 / AD 1524-1576). Silver shahi (6.22 gm, 21.06 mm), Shiraz, AH 940 = AD 1533/4. Album 2596. Zeno 289852.
saf-013
House record
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￥6,980
Obverse
Shiʿa kalima within a cartouche, ‘lā ilāha illā Allāh Muḥammad rasūl Allāh ʿAlī walī Allāh’ (‘There is no deity but Allah. Muhammad is the messenger of Allah. ʿAli is the friend of Allah’ in Arabic); in the margin, the names of the twelve Shiʿa imams in Persian, mostly effaced or off flan: ‘ʿAli, Hasan, Hosayn, ʿAli, Mohammad, Jaʾfar, Musā, ʿAli, Mohammad, ʿAli, Hasan, Mohammad’.
Reverse
Within a hexagon, ‘Shāh Ṭahmāsb zarb-e Shirāz fī 940’ (‘Shah Tahmasp. Struck in Shiraz in 940’ in Persian); around, the king’s titulature, mostly effaced or off flan: ‘al-sulṭān al-ʿādil al-kāmil al-hādī al-wālī Abu’l-Muẓaffar Shāh Ṭahmāsb Bahādur Khān al-Ṣafawī al-Ḥusaynī’ (‘The Sultan, the Just, the Perfect, the Guide, the Governor, Abu’l-Muzaffar Shah Tahmasp Bahadur Khan, the Safavid, the Husayni’ in Arabic).
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