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2 Rials - Mohammad Rezā Pahlavī
| Issuer | Iran |
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| Year | 1943-1951 |
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| Currency | Second Rial (1932-date) |
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| Reverse script | Arabic |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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This issue spans the chaotic stretch beginning with the Anglo-Soviet invasion of September 1941, which forced Reza Shah's abdication in favor of his son Mohammad Reza. The occupying powers — Britain controlling the south, the Soviet Union the north — extracted enormous resources from Iran throughout the war, triggering inflation that steadily eroded public confidence in the currency. Silver fractionals like this one circulated hard.
The .600 fineness was a wartime reduction from earlier, purer standards, a quiet acknowledgment that the Iranian treasury could not sustain pre-war silver content.