ISLAMIC, Persia (Post-Mongol). Safavids. Abu'l-Muzaffar Isma'il I, AH 907-930 / AD 1501-1524. Shahi (Silver, 25 mm, 9.36 g, 7 h), Nakhjavan, AH 919 = 1513/4. Shiʿa kalima in a central circle, ‘lā ilāha illā Allāh / Muḥammad rasūl Allāh / ʿAlī walī Allāh’ (‘There is no deity but Allah. Muhammad is the messenger of Allah. Ali is the friend of Allah’ in Arabic); the names of the twelve shiʿa imams around. Rev. In a central circle, the king’s full titulature as ‘al-Sulṭān al-ʿĀdil al-Hādī al-Wālī Abū al-Muẓaffar Shāh Ismāʿīl Bahādur Khān al-Ṣafawī’ (in Arabic), followed by ‘khallad Allāh taʿālā mulkahū. ḍarb Nakhjawān 919’ (‘May Allah, the Exalted, perpetuate his kingdom. Struck in Nakhjavan [in the year] 919’ in Arabic). Album 2576. Areas of weakness, otherwise, very fine.