The Eunuch king of Qajar

Discussion in 'Ancient Coins' started by arashpour, Jul 21, 2018.

  1. arashpour

    arashpour Well-Known Member

    Guys I just got the coin of one of the MOST notorious , cruel and evil personalities in Iranian history .

    The Eunuch king "Agha Mohammad Khan of Qajar" (reign 1789 – 17 June 1797) He was born into a warloard family (his father hassan khan qajar was a warlord under Nadir shah and later revolted to be independent )

    hassan khan was later killed by karim khan zand and agha mohammad khan was castrated and became an eunuch. This left a huge complex in his personality and the sense of revenge was firing in his soul.

    Eventually after death of karim khan he managed to capture all of iran and topple zand dynasty. He attacked Tiflis and ordered all men to be killed and women to be raped. He also captured a city in Iran called kirman and ordered 20000 inhabitants to be blinded and made a hill of eyes and tower of heads.

    His death story is amazing. It is said that at a night while he was in war he ordered his servants to bring him some watermelon. the servant was hungry and took a bite on his watermelon and the king noticed it and ordered the 3 servants to be executed this happened on a friday night and since his ministers told him it is religiously not nice to execute on friday he decided to postpone the execution to the following morning. The 3 servants knew their life will end so they decided to attack first and kill the king. They managed to escape from the prison on that night and infiltrate into the king's tent and beheaded him. The servants eventually got captured few days later and brutally murdered. here is my coins from this eunuch kings that I got recently.

    Notice how ugly and evil his face was

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    Last edited: Jul 21, 2018
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  3. Ajax

    Ajax Well-Known Member

    Sounds like a real gent. Great coin and write up @arashpour!
     
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  4. spirityoda

    spirityoda Coin Junky

    very cool coin and write up.
     
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  5. Andres2

    Andres2 Well-Known Member

    Heres a coin of his famous predecessor Sjah Nadir:

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  6. Aethelred

    Aethelred The Old Dead King

    I'm not into eastern coins, but I found this write up quite interesting.
     
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