10 Pahlavi - Mohammad Reza Pahlavi Silver Pattern

Pattern coins from the final years of Mohammad Reza Shah's reign are historically loaded objects. By 1978, the revolution was already underway in the streets — Jaleh Square and the Black Friday massacre occurred that September, and the Shah declared martial law within months. A silver pattern struck that year was almost certainly never going to reach production, and it didn't. The Islamic Republic abolished the Pahlavi monetary series entirely upon coming to power in 1979.

KM#Pn48 is sparsely documented, with surviving examples likely numbering in the single digits.