Persia (Post-Mongol). Safavids. 'Abbas III, AH 1145-1148 / AD 1732-1736. Abbasi (Silver, 26 mm, 5.34 g, 2 h), Tabriz, AH 1145 = AD 1732/3. Within a central dotted circle, Shiʿa kalima, ‘lā ilāha illā Allāh / Muḥammad / nabī Allāh ʿAlī walī Allāh’ (‘There is no deity but Allah. Muhammad is the prophet of Allah. Ali is the friend of Allah’ in Arabic); the names of the twelve shiʿa imams around, ‘ʿAlī Ḥasan Ḥusayn ʿAlī Muḥammad Jaʿfar Mūsā ʿAlī Muḥammad ʿAlī Ḥasan Muḥammad’ (in Arabic/Persian). Rev. Within a dotted circle, the couplet ‘sekke bar zar zad be towfiq-e elāhi dar jahān / zell-e haq ʿAbbās-e sāles sāni-ye sāheb-qerān’ (‘By divine grace, he struck coins of gold in the world, ʿAbbas the third, shadow of God, the second auspicious [king]’ in Persian); below, ‘[ḍarb] Tabrīz 1145’ (‘Struck in Tabriz, 1145’ in Persian). Album 2694. Rare. Some doubling and small areas of weakness, otherwise, extremely fine.