Iran SH1314 25 dinars
This specimen was lot 2657 in Stephen Album sale 41 (Santa Rosa, CA, September 2021), where it sold for $132. The catalog description[1] noted, "IRAN: Reza Shah, 1925-1941, AE 25 dinars, SH1314, rare 1-year type, EF, R." When Reza Shah seized the throne in 1925, he adopted the solar Hegira calendar, which used the Gregorian calendar but deducted 621 years. Thus, SH 1314 = 1935 AD. In 1931 the coinage system was reformed and 100 dinars = one rial. This issue superseded a copper-nickel coin of SH 1310 (KM 1125) and was accompanied by a copper five dinars (KM 1123a) and ten dinars (KM 1124a). The next issue of this denomination was in SH 1326, in the following reign.
Recorded mintage: 1,152,000.
Specification: 4.20 g, copper, 24.2 mm diameter.
Catalog reference: KM-1125a.
- 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 41, featuring the Dick Nanta Collection of Giray Khans, Part II, the Charles Opitz Collection of Ethnographic Money, Part II, and the Allan F. Pacela Collection of Chinese Coins. Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2021.
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