Iran MS2535 rial

from the Stack's Bowers February 2025 Collectors Choice Online Auction, lot 75694

TThis specimen was lot 75694 in Stack's Bowers Collectors Choice Online Auction (Costa Mesa, CA, February 2025), where it sold for $65. The catalog description^[1] noted, "IRAN. Rial, MS 2535 (1976). Tehran Mint. Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. PCGS MS-64." This was issued for the fiftieth anniversary of the Pahlavi dynasty. It is common. The shah was overthrown in 1979 and he died the next year. The Islamic revolutionaries who seized control promptly abandoned his MS calendar.

Recorded mintage: 61,945,000.

Specification: 1.74 g, copper-nickel, 18.3 mm diameter.

Catalog reference: KM-1205.

Source:

• Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1901-2000, 47th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
• ^[1]Orsini, Matt, Kyle Ponterio and Jeremy Bostwick, February 2025 World Collectors Choice Online Auction - Ancients, World Coins & World Paper Money, David B. Simpson Medals & World Coins Part 1, Selections from the Richard Margolis Collection, and Selections from the L. E. Bruun Collection, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers Galleries, Inc., 2025.

Link to:

• SH 1354 (1975) 2 rials
• SH 1354 (1975) ½ pahlavi
• Iran MS2535 5 rials
• MS 2535/1976 20 rials, F.A.O.
• SH 1355 (1976) ½ pahlavi
• SH 1355 5 pahlavi
• MS 2535 5 pahlavi, for the birthday of Reza Khan
• MS 2535 10 pahlavi
• MS 2536 (1977) ½ pahlavi
• Coins and currency dated 1976