Iran AH 1329 1000 dinars
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The empire was nearly bankrupt by the end of the 1800’s, and the dynasty finally fell when Reza Khan, a commander of the Persian Cossack Brigade, led a coup d’etat and launched the Pahlavi Dynasty in 1925 AD. This specimen was lot 3012 in Stephen Album sale 38 (Santa Rosa, CA, September 2020), where it did not sell. The catalog description[1] noted, "IRAN: Ahmad Shah, 1909-1925, AR 1000 dinars, AH1329, About Unc." This type was struck AH 1327-1330 and is fairly common. It is about the size of a French franc.
Recorded mintage: 3,000,000, fairly common.
Specification: 4.61 g, 0.900 fine silver.
Catalog reference: KM-1038.
- Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1901-2000, 47th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
- [1]Album, Stephen, Joseph Lang, Paul Montz, Michael Barry and Norman Douglas Nicol, Auction 38, featuring the Dabestani Collection of Persian Coins, Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2020.
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