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5 Rials
| Issuer | Central Bank of the Islamic Republic of Iran |
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| Year | 1992-1999 |
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| Composition | Brass |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
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| Reverse script | Arabic |
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Issued in the years following the Iran-Iraq War, this small brass coin entered circulation as the rial was losing purchasing power at a rate that made five of them functionally worthless for most transactions. The Central Bank continued issuing the denomination regardless, largely as a matter of institutional inertia — by the mid-1990s, a single U.S. dollar exchanged for several thousand rials on the open market.