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500 Rials Saadi Tomb
| Issuer | Central Bank of the Islamic Republic of Iran |
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| Year | 2008-2011 |
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| Weight | 3.9 g |
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| Reverse script | Arabic |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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The tomb of Sa'di in Shiraz — the 13th-century poet whose Golestan and Bustan remain foundational texts of Persian literature — became a site of formal national commemoration under the Pahlavi dynasty, with the current mausoleum rebuilt in 1952. Placing it on circulating coinage under the Islamic Republic is a studied choice: the regime had complicated relationships with pre-Islamic and secular cultural heritage, yet Sa'di's moralistic verse proved durable enough ideologically to survive the revolution intact.