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50 Dīnār - Mohammad Rezā Pahlavī
| Issuer | Iran |
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| Year | 1943 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | The traditional Iranian imperial emblem occupies the central field: a lion passant to the right, brandishing an upraised scimitar, with a radiant sun rising behind its back and a Pahlavi crown above. The device is enclosed within a wreath of oak leaves tied at the base, with an Arabic-script legend below the groundline reading the denomination and date. |
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| Obverse lettering | پنجاه دینار ١٣٢٢ |
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Iran's copper coinage of the early 1940s was minted under foreign occupation — British and Soviet forces had jointly invaded in August 1941, deposed Reza Shah, and installed his twenty-one-year-old son Mohammad Reza on the throne largely as a compliant wartime figurehead. The copper issues that followed reflected a monetary system under severe strain, with Allied requisitioning disrupting metal supplies and hoarding pulling silver coins out of circulation entirely.
The "a" suffix in KM#1142a denotes the copper composition variant, issued when nickel was no longer reliably available for coinage purposes.