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20 Rials - Mohammad Rezā Pahlavī 7th Asian Games
| Issuer | Iran |
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| Year | 1974 |
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| Currency | Second Rial (1932-date) |
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| Obverse lettering | محمّدرضا شاه پهلوی آریامهر شاهنشاه ایران |
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| Reverse script | Latin/Arabic |
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Iran hosted the 7th Asian Games in Tehran in October 1974, a massive organizational undertaking that the Shah used deliberately to project modernizing ambition onto the international stage. The games drew over 2,000 athletes from 25 nations — the largest Asian Games to that point. This coin was issued as a commemorative tied directly to that event, part of a broader pattern of Pahlavi-era commemoratives minted through the Tehran and foreign facilities during the 1970s boom in state coinage.
It would be the last time Iran hosted a major international sporting event before the 1979 Revolution permanently altered the country's relationship with such ambitions.