Iran, Qajar dynasty Naser al-Din Shah Qajar 1 Toman

History

1 Toman 1880, KM# A932, Iran, Qajar dynasty, Naser al-Din Shah Qajar

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Description

The Persian Empire is any of a series of imperial dynasties centered in Persia (Iran). The Qajar dynasty was an Iranian royal dynasty of Turkic origin, which ruled Persia (Iran) from 1785 to 1925. The state ruled by the dynasty was officially known as the Sublime State of Persia.

Historically, Iran has been referred to as Persia by the West, due mainly to the writings of Greek historians who called Iran Persis (Περσίς), meaning "land of the Persians." As the most extensive interactions the Ancient Greeks had with any outsider was with the Persians, the term persisted, even long after the Persian rule in Greece. In 1935, Reza Shah requested the international community to refer to the country by its native name, Iran.

The Iranian toman (from Mongolian tümen "unit of ten thousand") is a superunit of the official currency of Iran, the rial. It was divided into 10,000 dinars. Between 1798 and 1825, the toman was also subdivided into 8 rial, each of 1250 dinar.

Obverse	Person (king, queen, tsar etc.) Naser al-Din Shah Qajar Uniformed bust of Naser al-Din Shah Qajar 1/4 left divides a date in Hijri calendar (1297AH), without a legend. Naser al-Din Shah Qajar (1831–1896), also Nassereddin Shah Qajar, was the King of Persia from 5 September 1848 to 1 May 1896 when he was assassinated. He was the son of Mohammad Shah Qajar and Malek Jahān Khānom and the third longest reigning monarch in Iranian history after Shapur II of the Sassanid dynasty and Tahmasp I of the Safavid Dynasty. Nasser al-Din Shah had sovereign power for close to 50 years and was also the first modern Iranian monarch to formally visit Europe. The Islamic, Muslim, or Hijri calendar is a lunar calendar consisting of 12 months in a year of 354 or 355 days. The Islamic calendar employs the Hijri era whose epoch was retrospectively established as the Islamic New Year of AD 622. During that year, Muhammad and his followers migrated from Mecca to Yathrib (now Medina) and established the first Muslim community (ummah), an event commemorated as the Hijra. ۱۲۹۷
Reverse	Legend "Sultan Naser al-Din Shah Qajar" and "Tehran" and value within beaded circle and wreath. السُّلطان ناصرالدین شاه قاجار طهران
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