ʿAbbāsī

by Floor, Willem

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The ʿ abbāsī is a four- shāhī silver coin struck by the Ṣafavid ruler of Iran Shāh ʿAbbās I (r. 995–1038/1587–1629) in 995/1587, which dominated Iranian coinage until the middle of the twelfth/eighteenth century. (The shāhī is a Ṣafavid term for a coin equal to 50 dīnār s (golden coin, from Lat. denarius , first struck in 907/1501). The ʿabbāsī came to be known as shāhī-yi ʿabbāsī , or just ʿabbāsī . Two types were struck, one of 120 grains and another of 144 grains, or

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The ʿ abbāsī is a four- shāhī silver coin struck by the Ṣafavid ruler of Iran Shāh ʿAbbās I (r. 995–1038/1587–1629) in 995/1587, which dominated Iranian coinage until the middle of the twelfth/eighteenth century. (The shāhī is a Ṣafavid term for a coin equal to 50 dīnār s (golden coin, from Lat. denarius , first struck in 907/1501). The ʿabbāsī came to be known as shāhī-yi ʿabbāsī , or just ʿabbāsī . Two types were struck, one of 120 grains and another of 144 grains, or

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  • Publisher(s):Brill
  • Language:eng

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  • wc:ALei3201

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eng Islam

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Floor, Willem

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