I believe there was/is some type of import ban on Iranian coins. Someone with more knowledge can clarify hopefully, it's been a while since I read anything on it.
I do know that you can't sell them on eBay due to sanctions or something like that. Same goes for Cuban coins and a few others. Sometimes things slip through by posting them under vague categories. Auction houses like great collections can still sell them as I've seen several on there from time to time.
I can't speak for that app, but as stated you can't sell them on eBay or other major sites that ship to the U.S. so it's kind of hard to get a good idea of the prices for them with no past sales to compare them to. But when something is hard to get people tend to pay more for it.
Every other auction house sells Iranian & Cuban coins. eBay made the decision to not allow Cuban and Iranian coins for their site on their own. It’s not a set rule that you can’t sell Iranian coins because of sanctions. As for the price, Iranian crown size silver coins are gaining in price and are popular. I don’t tend to look at the minors.
But if you are in the U.S. you also can't pay for coins from Cuba or Iran with PayPal or credit cards. So like MAShops sells them but I can't pay for them.
@Hiddendragon Is that for foreign dealers on ma-shops? Have you noticed if that was the case for US dealers on mashops (I’m assuming there are some on ma-shops)? I’m assuming the import of these coins into the country is where it might get sticky.
I hadn't really thought about it til this post but I'm working on completing a collection of coins from my birth year (1981) 1 for every country in existence at the time. A few of them will be really hard and/or expensive for me to get it seems, Iran being one of them.
Where the actual problem comes in is if the name of the country is in the item title then AI will notice it and the payment company won't process your payment, whether the item is in the U.S. or outside of it. So if the listing says "Caribbean Island coin," you can buy it just fine, but personally I'm not going to contact a big European dealer and ask them to change it for me. Maybe someone wants to try this and see how it goes. I agree that going through customs would make me nervous. I don't know if they'd seize it or not honestly.
If you found an Iranian coin in Coinstar or something it could still be from someone who went there on a trip or who got it before there was an embargo. I used to work with someone who was an American from an Iranian family and she traveled there to visit family.
I wish I could read it there are so many different dialects of the Arabic language and I can't find a number in Arabic that matches exactly what's written
It appears to be a 2 Rials coin, minted 1959-1977. https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces7815.html Obverse Value within crowned wreath ("2 Rials") "Muhammad Reza Pahlavi" in Persian
The date is at the bottom of your second photo. It's not clear enough to read it. The first two numbers are 13. The year uses the Islamic calendar.
