ʿAbbāsī () was a name applied to gold and silver coins in Iran first issued by the
Safavid
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Shah
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Abbas I (r. 1588–1629). It was in use until the early 20th century. These coins bore no face values and were passed by weight.
[P. Avery, B. G. Fragner, J. B. Simmons (15 December 1982), "ʿAbbāsī", in: '']Encyclopædia Iranica
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While the Iranian ''abbasi'' was also widespread in eastern
Georgia
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, which was under the Iranian sway, the coin soon after also came to be minted at the mint in
Tiflis
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(Tbilisi), where they were colloquially known as ''
abazi''.
After the Russian annexation of eastern Georgia in 1801, ''abbasi'' denominations (one-half ''abbasi''--''Muhammad''; one quarter ''abbasi''--''shahi''; one-tenth ''abbasi''--''bisti''; 1/200th ''abbasi''--''dinar'') influenced production of the new currency, the Georgian silver (''kartuli tetri'').
See also
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Georgian abazi
Abazi ( ka, აბაზი) was a Georgian silver coin, deriving its name and existence from the Iranian '' abbasi'', which was in use from the early 17th century into the early 19th.
The name abazi derives from the Iranian ''abbasi'', a sil ...
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Denominations (currency)
Currencies of Iran
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