2000 Dīnār - Nāṣer al-Dīn Qājār

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.