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IRAN - MOHAMMAD REZA PAHLAVI SHAH 5 Pahlavi or SH 1348 = 1969 Téhéran AU

MONNAIES 18 (2003)
Starting price : 430.00 €
Estimate : 650.00 €
Realised price : 430.00 €
Number of bids : 1
Maximum bid : 495.00 €

Type : 5 Pahlavi or

Date: SH 1348 = 1969

Mint name / Town : Téhéran

Quantity minted : 2000

Metal : gold

Millesimal fineness : 900 ‰

Diameter : 40 mm

Orientation dies : 12 h.

Weight : 40,73 g.

Edge : cannelée

Coments on the condition:

Superbe exemplaire qui a conservé son brillant d’origine. Seule la tête du lion n’est pas parfaitement bien venue à la frappe, comme bien souvent sur ces exemplaires. Infimes marques de manipulation sur cette spectaculaire monnaie

Catalogue references :

WGC.1164 - F.99

Obverse

Obverse legend : INSCRIPTION EN PERSAN.

Obverse description : Tête nue de Riza Pahlavi Shah à gauche.

Reverse

Reverse legend : INSCRIPTION EN PERSAN.

Reverse description : Armes de l'Iran couronnées entre deux branches composites.

Historical background

IRAN - MOHAMMAD REZA PAHLAVI SHAH

(HS 1320-1358/ 1941-1979)

Riza Pahlavi Shah (26/10/1919-27/07/1980) modernized his country after the Second World War. The agrarian reform that he organized for the benefit of the peasantry and at the expense of the immense lands of the clergy earned him the inexpiable hatred of the latter. In line with Louis XVI and Nicolas II, he owes his fall to his lack of firmness against perfectly organized opponents, to his concern for appearances and foreign affairs to the detriment of domestic problems..

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