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5 Rials - Mohammad Rezā Pahlavī
| Issuer | Iran |
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| Year | 1958-1959 |
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| Value | 5 Rials (5 IRR) |
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| Obverse description | Central field displays the large Eastern Arabic numeral '5' above the word 'rial' in Persian script, enclosed within an open wreath of wheat and olive branches tied at the base. The Pahlavi imperial crown surmounts the wreath at the top. The Persian legend naming Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi as Shahanshah of Iran arcs across the upper field within the wreath. The Solar Hijri date 1338 appears in the exergue below the wreath junction. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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This two-year issue corresponds to the period immediately following the 1953 coup that restored Mohammad Reza Shah to the throne after Prime Minister Mosaddegh's nationalization of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company triggered a constitutional crisis. The CIA and MI6 operation, known as TPAJAX, reinstalled the Shah, and the subsequent years saw deliberate monetary stabilization as the new government worked to reassert institutional normalcy — coinage included.
KM#1175 was struck at the Tehran mint during a window before the 1960 redenomination pressures reshaped Iranian coinage policy.