Iran SH1348/1969 10 rials
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This specimen was lot 75684 in Stack's Bowers Collectors Choice Online Auction (Costa Mesa, CA, February 2025), where it sold for $45. The catalog description[1] noted, "IRAN. 10 Rials, SH 1348 (1969). Tehran Mint. Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. NGC MS-66." This ten rials was issued for the F.A. O. in 1969. Another ten rials (KM 1178) was struck for ordinary circulation but it was not dual dated. Both are worthless. The shah was overthrown in 1979 and he died the next year.
Recorded mintage: 150,000 plus 7,156,000 of KM 1178.
Specification: 7 g, copper-nickel, 28 mm diameter.
Catalog reference: KM-1182.
- 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.
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