Familiarity with a collection of stamps and banknotes in the Razavi Shrine Museum
“Treasure of stamps, postal history and banknotes of Astan Quds Razavi”, is the second specialized treasure in the collection of museums of Astan Quds Razavi, which was inaugurated on February 12, 1990 in the presence of Ayatollah Vaez Tabasi, the then curator of Astan Quds Razavi. This treasure, with a significant collection of stamps, a collection of postal history and banknotes of Iran and other countries, as well as study and research reference sources, is now considered as one of the national and international centers by researchers, collectors and stamp enthusiasts. Banknotes have been converted.
In the section of stamp display and postal history of this treasure, thousands of stamps and postal history collection including handwritten letters, stamped envelopes, stamped envelopes, postcards and other postal items from Iran in the Qajar, Pahlavi and Islamic Republic periods and other member states of the Union. World Post is on display. In the banknote display section, hundreds of sheets of banknotes from Iran (Qajar, Pahlavi and Islamic Republic) and the world are displayed.
“Black Penny”, the world’s first postage stamp
The world’s first postage stamp, known as the Black Penny, was issued in England on May 6, 1840. The image on this stamp showed the profile of Queen Victoria, printed on a black background measuring 23.19 mm. The word “penny” on this stamp and its black color made this stamp known as “Penny Black”. Due to the invention of the world’s first postage stamp in the United Kingdom, the stamps of this country are the only stamps without the name of this country. The number of published pieces of this stamp was equal to 68 million and 808 thousand and its use has continued for more than a year.
Iranian lion and solar stamps
Naser al-Din Shah Qajar’s acquaintance with the new postal organization during his trip to Europe caused a delegation to be sent to Paris to carry out the necessary checks and measures regarding the preparation of postal stamps. After much deliberation, the panel negotiated with a man named Albert Barr, and it was decided that he would come up with clichés. The stereotypes and stamps prepared by Bar had a delicate and oriental design and background and the symbol of the lion and the sun and Persian numbers, which were considered by the Iranian delegation. It was brought to Iran, but was not used for mail for unknown reasons.
The beauty of banknotes
This historical banknote is one of the second series of the first banknotes of Iran in the Qajar era, which was printed by the Imperial Bank of Iran during the years 1303 to 1311 AH, in England, in the size of 15.4 × 9.8 cm.
The design on this banknote includes the image of Nasser al-Din Shah Qajar and his filigree (faded background) lion and sun. The value of this banknote is one toman and it has been signed by “Murray”, the general manager of the bank and “Walter”, the general secretary of the Royal Bank of Iran. The phrase “will be paid only in Yazd” written on the banknote means that the person holding the banknote could turn it into gold and silver coins just by visiting one of the branches of the Royal Bank of Iran in Yazd.
Overcharged German banknotes during World War I.
During World War I, the German government, in order to fight the formation of a united front of Russian and British troops in the Middle East, decided, in an agreement with the Iranian revolutionaries living in Hamedan and Kermanshah, to transfer German currency in the form of 5,000 to 1,000 mark banknotes. Give them as a grant. Because the Iranians were unfamiliar with German currency and language at the time and did not know the value of exchanging any banknotes, the German government calculated the equivalent value of the mark against gold and silver and the equivalent amount in the currency of the period, the Qur’an. Shahi and Toman, and recorded the size of these banknotes on the banknotes with a red stamp of 18.8 ۰ 10.8 cm.