Bowl - Silver - Middle East - Qajar dynasty (1796–1925)

A Qajar silver bowl with an embedded coin of Ahmad Shah Qajar is an artistic collectible piece. The last ruler of the Qajar dynasty ruled from 1909 to 1925, which means such coins can usually be dated to the late 1910s or early 1920s.

Such objects combine traditional craftsmanship (often from the Isfahan region) with numismatics. Typical features are:

- The coin: In the center of the bowl is an original silver coin from Ahmad Shah's reign, in this case a 5000 dinar coin, also called a kran.

- The bowl: Handcrafted from silver (often with a fineness of 800 to 900). The edges are elaborately chiselled or engraved with traditional floral patterns, tendrils, or Islamic ornamentation.

- Production: The coins were not simply glued on afterwards, but embedded into the bottom of the bowl, which made the bowls popular as representative or decorative objects.

- This coin is a 5000-dinar silver coin (5 Qiran)

- It shows the portrait of Ahmad Shah Qajar, who reigned from 1909 to 1925.

- The coin typically consists of 900 silver and weighs about 23 grams and was minted between 1913 and 1926.

- The date engraved on the coin in the Islamic calendar corresponds to the years 1913 to 1917 in the Gregorian calendar.

- Ahmad Shah Qajar (Persian احمد شاه قاجار Ahmad Shah Qadschar; born January 31, 1897; died February 21, 1930) was Shah from July 16, 1909 to October 31, 1925. He was the seventh and last ruler of the Turkmen-origin Qajar dynasty.

- The total weight of the bowl is 42 grams, the diameter is 7 cm, height 2 cm.

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