Watch List notes:

IRAN, Qajars. Ahmad Shah. AH 1327-1344 / AD 1909-1925. AV 5 Ashrafi (28mm, 14.41 g, 6h). Tehran mint. Dated AH 1337 (AD 1918/9). Bust facing slightly left, set on wreath of laurel and oak; date below; all within pelleted border / Lion and Sun on ground line; panj ashrafi (five ashrafi) in Persian below; all within laurel and oak wreath; Kiani Crown above. Rabino di Borgomale –; KM 1081; Friedberg –. EF, traces of underlying luster, obverse struck with slightly worn die.


From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams. Ex Superior (24 February 2003), lot 850.