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5 Rials - Mohammad Rezā Pahlavī
| Issuer | Iran |
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| Year | 1952-1957 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#1159 |
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| Obverse lettering | محمّدرضا شاه پهلوی شاهنشاه ایران ۵ ريال ۱۳۳۲ (Translation: Mohammed Reza Shah Pahlawi The Shahanshah of Iran 5 Rial 1332) |
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| Mintage | 1331 (1952) - ۱۳۳۱ - 3,660,000 1332 (1953) - ۱۳۳۲ - 16,350,000 1333 (1954) - ۱۳۳۳ - 6,582,000 1334 (1955) - ۱۳۳۴ - 300,000 1336 (1957) - ۱۳۳۶ - 1,410,000 |
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These years bracket one of the most turbulent stretches in modern Iranian history. The 1953 CIA- and MI6-backed coup — Operation AJAX — toppled Prime Minister Mosaddegh and reinstated Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi's full authority after a period of near-exile. Coins of this type struck in 1952 and early 1953 circulated under a government actively nationalizing the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company; those dated after the coup circulated under an entirely different political order, though the dies changed nothing to reflect it.