# Musa Beg

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{{Short description|Armeni-Iranian politician}}
'''Musa Beg''' was an official in late [Safavid Iran](/source/Safavid_Iran), who served as controller of the assay (''mo'ayyer ol-mamalek'') in 1713–14 under [Shah](/source/Shah) [Sultan Husayn](/source/Sultan_Husayn) ({{reign}}1694-1722). He was of [Armenian](/source/Armenians) descent, his grandfather having converted to Islam.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Matthee|first1=Rudi|author-link1=Rudi Matthee|last2=Floor|first2=Willem|author-link2=Willem Floor|last3=Clawson|first3=Patrick|author-link3=Patrick Clawson|title=The Monetary History of Iran: From the Safavids to the Qajars|date=2013|publisher=I.B. Tauris|isbn=978-0857721723|page=14}}</ref>

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Category:Armenian people in Iran
Category:Controllers of the assay of the Safavid Empire
Category:18th-century people from Safavid Iran
Category:Armenian Shia Muslims
Category:18th-century deaths

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