Persia (Post-Mongol). Safavids. 'Abbas III, AH 1145-1148 / AD 1732-1736. Abbasi (Silver, 24 mm, 5.36 g, 12 h), Tiflis (Tbilisi), AH 1148 = AD 1735/6. Within a central dotted circle, Shiʿa kalima, ‘lā ilāha illā Allāh / Muḥammad / rasūl Allāh ʿAlī w/alī 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 in Arabic around, mostly off flan. 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 Tiflīs [11]48’ (‘Struck in Tiflis. 1148’ in Persian). Album 2694. Rare and lightly toned. Very fine.