10 Dīnār - Rezā Pahlavī

The 10 dinar was part of Reza Shah's sweeping currency reform of 1931, which replaced the qajar-era monetary system and pegged the new rial to gold. The reform was inseparable from his broader modernization program — the same years that saw forced sedentarization of nomadic tribes, the prohibition of the veil, and the construction of the Trans-Iranian Railway. Small copper-nickel fractionals like this one were essential to that project, providing a rationalized coinage for a cash economy the state was actively trying to build from scratch.

KM#1124 is among the shorter-lived denominations of the series, largely squeezed out of practical use by inflation within a decade.