Iran AH1300 5000 dinars

from the Stack's Bowers 2018 NYINC sale, lot 24085

This specimen was lot 24083 in Stack's Bowers NYINC sale (New York, January 2018), where it sold for $132. The catalog description^[1] noted, "IRAN. 1/2 Toman, AH 1300 (1883). NGC AU Details--Bent. Slightly bent, nicely struck with a bold portrait." The SCWC lists this scarce type for AH 1297-1313. One thousand dinars made a kran and ten kran made a toman. The largest silver coin was the five krans.

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: 1.43 g, 0.900 fine gold.

Catalog reference: Fr-63; KM-927.

Source:

• Friedberg, Arthur L. and Ira S. Friedberg, Gold Coins of the World, From Ancient Times to the Present, 9th ed., Clifton, NJ: Coin and Currency Institute, 2017.
• ^[1]Ponterio, Richard, Kyle Ponterio, John Kraljevich and Cris Chatigny, The January 2018 NYINC Sale: Ancient Coins, World Coins & Paper Money, featuring the Eldorado Collection of Colombian and Ecuadorian Coins, Santa Ana, CA: Stack's Bowers LLC, 2017.
• Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1801-1900, 9th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.

Link to:

• (1879) gold 5000 dinars
• AH 1297 gold 5000 dinars
• AH 1299 (1881) 50 dinars
• AH 1299 (1881) 1000 dinars = kran
• AH 1299 (1881) toman
• AH 13(00) shahi
• Iran AH1300 2000 dinars
• AH 1300 gold toman
• AH 1301 (1883) 2000 dinars
• AH 1301 (1883) gold 5000 dinars = ½ toman
• AH 1301 (1883) 1 toman
• AH 1302 (1884) 12 dinars
• Coins and currency dated 1882