ancient coins

2022-04-29 20:30

Parthian coin recovered in western Iran

TEHRAN – Iranian authorities have confiscated an ancient coin from an inbound passenger.

2022-02-18 21:25

570 relics including millennia-old objects confiscated by border security agents

TEHRAN – Iranian authorities have confiscated 570 relics some of which date from the first millennium BC from a cargo truck before it crosses an Iran-Turkey border.

2022-01-28 18:47

Ilkhanid, Timurid coins undergo restoration

TEHRAN – A selection of 2,000 coins, dating from the Ilkhanid and Timurid eras, has undergone restoration at the Zolfaghari Museum of Zanjan in west-central Iran.

2022-01-25 18:53

Tehran museum publishes book on Sassanid coins

TEHRAN – Bank Melli Iran Museum has published a book on coins and coinage during the Sassanid era (224–651).

2021-12-19 19:45

21 historical coins recovered from smuggler

TEHRAN – Iranian authorities have recovered 21 historical coins among some fake ones from a smuggler who wanted to cross the border northwest of the country.

2021-12-05 21:37

Timurid coins recovered in northeast Iran

TEHRAN – Iranian police have recently discovered 20 Timurid coins from an illegal antique dealer in Maneh-Samalqan.

2021-08-11 19:00

Ancient coins confiscated from illegal excavator

TEHRAN – Iranian authorities have seized some ancient coins from an illegal digger in the western province of Ilam, the provincial tourism chief announced on Wednesday.

2021-08-08 18:37

Ancient currency: glimpses of early Islamic coins

TEHRAN - Being made in most ages of precious metal, or possessing a significant token value, coins have always been prized, often hoarded, and, therefore, frequently buried for safety.

2021-06-23 18:42

Iranian police arrest suspected smuggler, seize ancient coins

TEHRAN – Iranian police forces have arrested a person suspected of smuggling ancient artifacts and recovered seven ancient coins.

2021-05-22 22:08

Parthian, Sassanid, Islamic coins under restoration by Iranian experts

TEHRAN – Some 200 historical coins are currently being restored by a team of Iranian experts at Mofakham Museum of Bojnurd in North Khorasan province.

2021-05-10 20:30

Coins of Parthian, Abbasid, and Safavid eras restored in Zanjan museum

TEHRAN – A total of 25 coins, which date from the Parthian, Abbasid, and Safavid eras, have recently been restored in a museum laboratory in Zanjan.

2021-04-07 09:30

Batch of Sassanid coins restored in southeastern Iran

TEHRAN – A batch of Sassanid coins were restored at a cultural heritage laboratory in Iran’s southwestern Chaharmahal-Bakhtiari province over the past Iranian calendar year (ended March 20), the deputy provincial official said on Tuesday.

2021-02-21 21:06

Sassanid coins cleaned, restored in lab southeast Iran

TEHRAN – A total of 23 historical coins have been cleaned and restored at a museum laboratory in the southeastern province of Sistan-Baluchestan, the deputy provincial tourism chief has said.

2021-01-12 16:42

Parthian, Sassanid, Islamic coins restored in southeastern Iran

TEHRAN – Some 130 historical coins have been restored since the beginning of the current Iranian year 1399 (March 20, 2020) in the southeastern province of Kerman, the deputy provincial tourism chief has said.

2020-11-04 20:00

Antique coins, swords, dagger and pistol confiscated from smuggler

TEHRAN – Iranian authorities have seized 12 antique objects, including coins, two swords, a dagger, and a pistol, from a smuggler in Quchan, northeastern Khorasan Razavi province.

2020-10-31 20:30

Rasht museum documents 5,000 historical coins

TEHRAN – A total of 5,000 historical coins being kept at Rasht Museum of Anthropology in northern Gilan province have been documented.

2020-09-07 21:53

Collector donates Sassanid silver coins to national museum

TEHRAN – An Iranian collector has donated over 50 silver coins dating back to the Sassanid era (224 CE–651) to the Astan Quds Razavi Museum, a vast cultural heritage exhibition located in the holy shrine complex of Imam Reza (AS) in Mashhad, northeast Iran.

File photo depicts daric coin of the Achaemenid Empire (Darius I to Xerxes II)

2020-07-18 22:14

Millennia-old coins recovered from antique dealers in Tehran

TEHRAN – Iranian authorities have confiscated 750 coins, which are estimated to date back to the 1st millennium BC, from illegal antique dealers in Tehran province.

The ruins of two workshops, estimated to date from the Parthian era (247 BC – 224 CE), have recently been unearthed in Isfahan, central Iran.

2020-07-14 18:23

Newly unearthed workshops may push back history of Isfahan by millennia

TEHRAN – Archaeologists have unearthed the ruins of two workshops, estimated to date from the Parthian era (247 BC – 224 CE), in Isfahan in a significant discovery that may push back the history of the central Iranian city in time by millennia.

2020-07-07 01:03

A peek into Bronze-Age Tepe Gariran, a gateway to the “Old Routes of Western Iran”

TEHRAN – In 1931, the renowned British archaeologist Sir Marc Aurel Stein (1862 – 1943) surveyed Tepe Gariran in western Iran along with several others across the ancient land. His views were published in November 1969 in a book titled “Old Routes of Western Iran: Narratives of an Archaeological Journey”.

2020-05-18 19:19

Historical coin found in ancient port city southern Iran

TEHRAN – A historical coin, dating from 1835 CE, has recently been found in the southern port city of Siraf while a databank was being established for fragments of centuries-old ceramics and potteries discovered through years of excavations in the ancient region.