Al-sultan, ibn al-sultan (Sultan, sun of the sultan) Fath-Ali Shah Qajar.

Fath-Ali Shah Qajar (1772–1834) was the second Qajar king (shah) of Persia. He reigned from 17 June 1797 until his death. His reign saw the forced and irrevocable ceding of Iran's integral northern territories (Caucasian territories), which had made part of its concept for centuries, comprising what is nowadays Georgia, Dagestan, Azerbaijan, and Armenia to Imperial Russia following the Russo-Persian War (1804-1813), the Russo-Persian War (1826-1828) and the respectively resulting Treaty of Gulistan and Treaty of Turkmenchay.

Fath-Ali Shah Qajar was also known by his second name of Baba Khan, a name he would use until his coronation in 1797. Fath Ali Shah is reported to have had more than 1,000 spouses. He was survived by fifty-seven sons and forty-six daughters, along with 296 grandsons and 292 granddaughters. He is instantly recognizable in all 25 known portraits – mainly due to his immense, deeply black beard, which reached well beneath his narrow waist.

The mint with its distinguishing epithet (Shiraz the Abode of Knowledge) & date AH1239 (1824AD).

Iranian coins were dated according to the Moslem lunar calendar until March 21, 1925.