Persia (Post-Mongol). Safavids. Tahmasp I, AH 930-984 / AD 1524-1576. Heavy Ashrafi (Gold, 18 mm, 3.88 g, 9 h), Tabriz, AH 938 = AD 1531/2. Central field within square, in three lines: lā ilāha illā Allāh / Muḥammad rasūl Allāh / ʿAlī walī Allāh (‘There is no deity but God / Muḥammad is the Messenger of God / ʿAlī is the friend of God’ in Arabic). Around, names of the Twelve Imams. Rev. Central field within cartouche: ʿadl Tabrīz 938 (‘Justice of Tabriz, 938’ in Persian). Around: al-sulṭān [al-ʿādil] al-kāmil al-hādī Abū al-Muẓaffar Shāh Ṭahmāsp Bahādur Khān al-Ṣafawī al-Ḥusaynī khallada [Allāh mulkahu wa sulṭānahu] (‘The just, perfect, and rightly-guided sultan, Abū al-Muẓaffar Shāh Ṭahmāsp Bahādur Khān the Ṣafavid, the Ḥusaynī, may God perpetuate his kingdom and sovereignty’ in Arabic). Album 2593. ICV 3642. Extremely rare. Small marks, deposits and flan faults on the edge, otherwise, good very fine.