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2000 Dīnār - Nāṣer al-Dīn Qājār
| Issuer | Iran |
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| Year | 1894-1895 |
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| Value | 2000 Dinars |
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| Reverse description | Central field depicts the Imperial Iranian lion-and-sun device: a rampant lion passant to the left, holding an upright sword in its right forepaw, with a radiant rising sun behind its back. Above the lion, a Kiani crown surmounts the composition. The AH date 1312 is split across the field flanking the lion's body. Below the lion, on a ground line, the denomination legend appears in Persian Nasta'liq script. The entire central device is encircled by the same wreath of olive and oak branches tied with a ribbon at the base, within a dentilated outer border. |
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| Reverse lettering | ۱۳۱۲ دوهزار دینار (Translation: 1312 Two thousand Dinar) |
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Nāṣer al-Dīn Shāh had ruled for nearly half a century by the time this issue was struck — the longest-reigning Qajar monarch, and by the 1890s, one increasingly dependent on foreign concessions to fund his court. The 1890 Tobacco Régie scandal, in which he granted a British company monopoly control over Iran's entire tobacco trade, had triggered a nationwide boycott backed by senior clerics and forced a humiliating reversal. The concession's cancellation cost the treasury £500,000 in compensation, paid largely by a loan from a British bank — the first of Iran's foreign debts.
He was assassinated in May 1896 at the shrine of Shah Abdol-Azim, making this one of the final coin types struck under his name.