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Tanka - Anonymous - Shi'ite partisans in Māzandarān Sari
| Issuer | Shi'ite partisans in Māzandarān |
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| Orientation | Variable alignment ↺ |
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| Obverse description | Central field occupied by the Shi'ite Kalima rendered in angular Arabic script within a rectangular cartouche. The inscription proclaims the shahada with the addition of the Alid formula recognising Ali as the representative of Allah. A marginal Arabic legend encircles the cartouche along the coin's irregular flan edge. The die work is characteristic of provincial hammered coinage, with bold but somewhat roughly cut lettering. |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
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Māzandarān, the densely forested region hugging the Caspian littoral, was among the last holdouts of Shi'ite resistance following the Mongol disruptions and subsequent Sunni consolidations across Iran. Anonymous issues struck at Sari — the region's principal city — without a ruler's name were a deliberate political act, not an administrative oversight. Suppressed factions minted anonymously to circulate ideology without providing a named target for reprisal.
Sari itself had been a seat of Zaydi Shi'ite political authority for centuries before this issue.