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1 Rial - Mohammad Rezā Pahlavī
| Issuer | Iran |
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| Year | 1977-1978 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Central field bears the numeral '1' above the word 'Rial' in Persian script, enclosed within an open wreath of olive and oak branches tied at the base. A small imperial crown surmounts the wreath at the top. The circular legend around the wreath reads 'Mohammad Shah Shahanshah Iran' with the title 'Aryamehr' incorporated, in Arabic script. The Imperial Calendar date appears at the bottom of the wreath, below the denomination. |
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| Obverse lettering | محمد شاه شاهنشاه ایران ١ ريال ۲۵۳۶ |
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By the time these rials were being struck, the Shah's government was accelerating an industrialization program so disruptive — compulsory land redistribution, forced urbanization, the dismantling of bazaar merchant networks — that it had alienated nearly every social class simultaneously. The coins were minted in the final two years of Pahlavi rule, making them among the last issues of a dynasty that had lasted just over half a century before the 1979 revolution terminated production entirely.