A few rare Iranian coins

Love, love, love Persian coins. The lion and sun design especially, very powerful image


500 dinars AH1323 (1905) - This type generally is scarce rather than rare, but this is a case for condition rarity as mint state examples such as this are few and far between.






2 pahlavi SH1308 (1929) - Only 789 coins of this year were minted.






Medallic 5 kran (5000 dinars) AH1293 (1876) - Made as presentation pieces for the 30th anniversary of the rule of Nasir Al-Din Shah. Only a handful are known to exist. It is listed in Krause "Unusual World Coins" as X# M20. Fun fact: Krause also erroneously used the picture of this type as the plate for KM# 914, which is a type with a different design and different dates.

 

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Beautiful artsy calligraphy.

 

Very nice coins! I'll show some of mine. You'll allow, right? Lol. Mine aren't scarce or rare, but I've got some pretty cool ones. Some you can help identify and translate, too. Need a little time to round up the pictures. Be back in a bit.

 

these are amazing.

 

Would be happy to see them

 

I love the artistic designs on those coins

 

Here's my SH1333 50 Dinars.

 

Here's another 50 Dinars. This one I need dated. Mine are all pretty much common loose change. I do like the designs.

 

Finally, a 2 Rials and a 1 Rial. Need these dated. I like the rim on the 2 Rials.

 

I like the OPs 3rd coin pic. But all 3 are beauts. I'm a quarter Persian so I've gravitated somewhat towards these coins. I don't have any coins below the 1950s or so. Them seem quite expensive in decent condition as you go back farther

 

Can't really make out the whole date on the 50 dinars, the last digit looks like a 6.

The 2 rials is 1323 and 1 rial is 1324. Cool silver coins

 

Gorgeous example

 

Nelson, is that what they're supposed to look like? Lol. That's one fine coin. Listen, get that verdigris off, it looks like it's the early type. Put acetone on it and see if it loosens with a moistened toothpick or something like that. Nobody is going to notice a thing if you're careful. It will take over the coin, though, if you don't arrest it in some way.

 

I really love the first crown. I usually do not like the coins from Islamic countries and empires like Ottoman because they don't have beautiful designs like court of arms/city views but mostly just writings on their coins. This one is an exception. I once tried to buy a similar 500 dinars on ebay and was denied saying Coins from Iran are blocked for UK buyers (This was before i changed my ebay region from UK to US).

 

Silly ebay rules. I really believe numismatists and the like should get a pass on whatever the political atmosphere may be at the moment. Our business has nothing to do with that, we just want to collect remnants of history regardless of what the current spin might be.

 

Great advice. My example had verdigris spots on the reverse when I got it. Acetone treatment did the trick. The dark spots in the reverse picture were green before that. Would have been much worse had I let it keep rotting.

 

I wouldn't have surmised that coin was "mint state" as you say. Was the quality of production of these pretty poor? And, you say scarce -- as in, what was the mintage? Just curious.

 

Yes the quality wasn't the best at the time, but the coin doesn't have any wear and actually has some faint luster left.
Posted mintage is 130k, but they are very hard to find in this condition. This is the case for all denominations with this design, as well as nearly all other silver coins struck under Muzaffar al-Din Shah.

 

I have one of those, but unfortunately, mine seems to be a forgery. There seems to be a gap on the edge. What do you guys think? I guess this is for everyone’s situational awareness that there are fakes of this type of coin out there. I have several other Iranian coins though, which I will share later. A few of them I’m not sure about.