Isma'il Shah I / early "Lion & Sun" Safavid copper of Tabriz mint

[saro]

Falus of Isma'il Shah I struck at Tabriz in 912 AH / 8,48g / rare coin with a nice black patina
This coin was sleeping without label for quite some time in a drawer... before I recently found an accurate reference in a paper of Lutz Ilisch (Research Center for Islamic Numismatics / Tübingen),with this comment :
"Shah Isma'il reintroduced the Sun & Lion device (in 912 AH) into iranian copper coinage, after a two hundred years period from which very few examples have been found".

ref : JC3D3 / Tübingen museum (fig.18 ) / dated 912 AH

[saro]

Persian civic coppers were of local use and don't show the Shah's name; this coin which bears the king's name should be considered as a State coin.
It reads : " اسمعیل ضب تبرز  Isma'il zarb Tabriz" in a wavy central cartouche.

The Tübingen coin (in lower grade) shows a part of the date 912 at top, not visible here (or not present ?)

[capnbirdseye]

A really interesting and attractive type, the sun displayed quite differently to the usual or more common types we see. Most noticeable is how the engraver did the sun with a peak at the top, it must be the first coin featuring a solar flare! 

[saro]

Most noticeable is how the engraver did the sun with a peak at the top, it must be the first coin featuring a solar flare! 

Yes, it's really an uncommon shape for the sun... the museum example shows the same peak but with straight sunrays and not wavy as here; however the whole designs obv & rev are the same.
It's the first and only copper coin with name of the 1st Safavid ruler that I have seen.

[maudry]

Here is the same coin differently centered.
Possibly from the same dies?
I have brightened the reverse on a second picture so that hopefully it can be better read.
Size: 20mm
Weight: 8.12gr

[saro]

Good find Maudry 
Your coin is identical to mine : same type and could be well from same die as you suggest; the legend is slightly different from the Tübingen's coin.
For comparison : attached a photo of the Tübingen museum coin I referred to