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1000 Rials Half of Sha'ban
| Issuer | Central Bank of the Islamic Republic of Iran |
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| Year | 2011 |
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| Currency | Second Rial (1932-date) |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
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| Reverse description | Central field features a stylized arrangement of narcissus flowers (known as 'Nargess' in Persian), rendered in a decorative floral motif. The narcissus is symbolically significant as it is the name of the mother of the Twelfth Imam of Shia Islam, Muhammad al-Mahdi. The legend 'Nimeh Sha'ban' (Half of Sha'ban) appears prominently in Arabic script, commemorating the birth anniversary of the Twelfth Imam celebrated on the 15th of Sha'ban in the Islamic lunar calendar. The design is framed by a beaded or plain inner border. |
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Issued to mark Nimeh Sha'ban — the fifteenth night of the eighth month of the Islamic lunar calendar, observed as the birthday of Muhammad al-Mahdi, the Twelfth Imam whose occultation is central to Twelver Shia doctrine. The Iranian state has regularly issued commemorative rials tied to the Shia calendar since the Revolution, using the coinage as a deliberate assertion of theocratic identity. This piece is one of the more modestly circulated in that series, with limited evidence of wide distribution outside religious observance contexts.