250 Rials + 1 Cent

250 Rials + 1 Cent
by Jahanshah Javid
20-Jun-2011
 

I was at my friend Kayvan's house today in Oakland, California. His mother had arrived from Iran a few days ago. She showed us the new Iranian coins in circulation. I was shocked to see a 250-Rial coin that's slightly smaller than a penny. I took a picture to share.

When I was 11-12 year old in the early 1970s, my weekly allowance was 30 tomans (300 rials, about 4 dollars back then). That was A LOT of money, especially for a kid. Ten rials bought an ice cold Coca Cola and a bag of chips. "You can't buy anything with 250 rials," Kayvan's mother said.

My parents used to talk about how cheap things were during their childhood too. But the erosion of the rial since the revolution has been far worse than the international average. And now we hear news that the rial's fall against the dollar has accelerated in recent months.

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Fatollah

wow!

by Fatollah on Mon Jun 20, 2011 09:53 AM PDT

was I just censored?

"a kid in 1971-72 recieving 30 toman in weekly allowance => spoiled kid."

 


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Anahid Hojjati

30 tooman for an eleven year old, that was huge allowance money

by Anahid Hojjati on Mon Jun 20, 2011 09:19 AM PDT

About the same time that your weekly allowance was 30 tooman, rent of a nice home in a good area of Tehran was 1200 tooman a month, so I can say that for sure your allowance was big. The fact that you can't get anything with 250 rials now in Iran, that is bad. 


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Red Wine

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by Red Wine on Mon Jun 20, 2011 01:53 AM PDT

آن زمان با بیست تومان ،کِرایه خانه ۴ اتاقه با سَرسرایِ  بزرگ و حَیاط و نوکر و کلفت در دِزاشیب را می‌‌دادی و در جیبِ  تو باز چند تومان باقی‌ می‌‌ماند که می‌‌رفتی‌ چند تومان لباس برای عَیال و چند شَلیته و شلوار برایِ  صَغیران می‌‌پرداختی و در آخر نفت برای چراغ می‌‌خریدی و اَیضاً چند سیرِ  گوشتِ  گوسپَندِ  بدون اُستخوانْ و چند سیب و پرتقال و ماست و سبزی خوردن و در خاتمه نان سَنگک و اَنعامِ  حمّال و شُوفر !

این خانه خَرابانِ  اِسلامیه آن چنان مملکت را به آتش زده اند که هیچ گونه آیندهٔ خوب اقتصادی ،، در انتظارِ  ایران زمین نمی‌‌بینیم !

بازگشتِ  شاهی‌، قِرانْ و صَناّر را تو چه بینی‌ که شاید  این چنین سرنوشتی در انتظار مردمِ  ایران است !


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Ari Siletz

$1 = 2500-5000 tomans

by Ari Siletz on Mon Jun 20, 2011 01:20 AM PDT

If IRI stops manipulating the Rial. A guess based on inflation rates in Iran and US over the past 10 years.


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