Cupro-nickel coinage of Persia and Iran

Modern base-metal circulation coinage of twentieth-century Iran. 4 catalogued examples spanning Pahlavi Dynasty.

Pahlavi Dynasty · 1925 – 1979 CE

Mohammad Reza Shah

SH 1357 / 1978

Late-Pahlavi commemorative — part of the broader commemorative-coin output that includes the FAO 'Money Coin' series.

Mohammad Reza Shah

SH 1338–1357 (1959–1979)

Workhorse small-change coin of the late Pahlavi era — minted in hundreds of millions and still found in circulation drawers across Iran today.

Mohammad Reza Shah

SH 1338–1357 (1959–1979)

Mid-range minor denomination of the modernised Pahlavi coinage struck by Bank Markazi from the late 1950s onward.

Mohammad Reza Shah

SH 1338–1357 (1959–1979)

Highest-denomination cupronickel circulation coin of the era — the largest pocket coin most Iranians handled before the 1979 revolution.