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margin, Tabaristan series. https://persiantreasury.com/knowledge#umayyad-reform-dinar 2026-06-21 monthly 0.6 https://persiantreasury.com/img/wiki/First_Umayyad_gold_dinar_Caliph_Abd_al-Malik_695_CE.jpg Abd al-Malik and the 696 coinage reform The first purely epigraphic Islamic dinar, theological motivation, weight standard. https://persiantreasury.com/knowledge#abbasid-dirham 2026-06-21 monthly 0.6 https://persiantreasury.com/img/wiki/Gold_dinar_of_Harun_al-Rashid_184AH.jpg The Abbasid silver dirham as a global currency Reach into Scandinavia, mint cities of Iran, calligraphic evolution. https://persiantreasury.com/knowledge#samanid-dinar 2026-06-21 monthly 0.6 https://persiantreasury.com/img/wiki/Gold_coin_of_the_Samanid_ruler_Abd_al-Malik_I_minted_at_Nishapur_in_955_or_956.jpg Samanid gold and the Nishapur mint Bukhara's bureaucracy, Nishapur's output, Persian renaissance under Samanids. https://persiantreasury.com/knowledge#buyid-coinage 2026-06-21 monthly 0.6 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Shah and the rial banknote series 1932 currency reform from toman to rial, Bank Melli, first state-issued notes. https://persiantreasury.com/knowledge#pahlavi-banknotes 2026-06-21 monthly 0.6 https://persiantreasury.com/img/wiki/Kingdom_of_Iran_10000_Rials_Banknote_1978_-_Second_Pahlavi_King_obverse_.jpg Pahlavi-era banknotes: portraiture and modernism Mohammad Reza Shah portrait notes, Persepolis vignettes, design evolution. https://persiantreasury.com/knowledge#islamic-republic-notes 2026-06-21 monthly 0.6 https://persiantreasury.com/img/wiki/10000_Rials_banknote_of_the_Islamic_Republic_of_Iran.jpg Banknotes of the Islamic Republic Religious iconography, Imam Khomeini portrait series, security features. https://persiantreasury.com/knowledge#isfahan-mint 2026-06-21 monthly 0.6 https://persiantreasury.com/img/wiki/Coin_of_Shah_Soltan_Hoseyn_minted_in_Isfahan_dated_1717-1718.jpg The Isfahan mint under Shah Abbas Maydan-i Naqsh-e Jahan's craft district, Safavid silver output, mint 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