Director of the treasury of stamps, banknotes, and coins of Astan Quds Razavi added to this report, “This exquisite and precious collection was dedicated to Imam Reza (A.S.) museum by an American collector named Ms. Qamar Bani Hashem known as ‘Shame Mumen’.”
“The dedicated coins belong to Sultan Farukh Sayar and Muhammad Shah, two Indian Gurkani emperors”, Muhammad Hussein Yazdinejad said.
“The coins have been minted from 1127 A.H./1715 to 1144 A.H./1731 in Ottawa, Cavalier, Akhtarnegar, Kura, Mustaqar al-Khilafa, and Shahabad Qanuj”, he added.
Pointing to the poem written on one of the coins, he said, “Over a coin the following Persian poem can be seen: ‘the coin was minted on gold by grace of God/ the king of the sea and the land, Farukh Sayar’; it marks the importance and spread of Persian language across the Indian peninsula.”
Referring to the reputation and status of the treasury of stamps, banknotes, and coins of Astan Quds Razavi among Iranian and foreign collectors, he remarked, “The dedicated collection will be ready to be used by researchers for historical and cultural researches and theses after registration and documentation process.”
It is notable that containing a considerable amount of historical Iranian and foreign coins, the treasury of stamps, banknotes, and coins of Astan Quds Razavi receives annually hundreds of thousands of pilgrims, Iranian and foreign tourists, Iranian and foreign coin collectors, students, and researchers.
