SINCONA Auktion 67

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Reza Shah Coronation Medal [Midal-i-Taj-Gudhari]. Bronze Medal, Bronze, with ribbon and pin, in its original case. BWK3 48; YOU p. 282.
Gutes sehr schön / Good very fine.
(~€ 45/USD 55)
Reza Shah Pahlavi (1878-1944, reigned from 1925 until 1941) was born on March 15, 1878, in Alasht in the Savadkuh county in the province of Mazandaran as son of Mazandarani [Major] Abbas-Ali Khan (died 1878) and his second wife Abbas-Ali Khan. In 1891, at the age of 14, he joined the Persian Cossack Brigade, of which he later received a commission as a Brigadier General. After a coup d’état in 1921 he became commander of the Iranian army and Minister of War. On October 28, 1923, he was appointed Hazrat-i-Ashraf [Prime Minister] of Iran with dictatorical powers, with the style of Janab-i-Ashraf [His Serene Highness]. By October 1925, he succeeded in pressuring the Majlis to depose and formally exile Ahmad Shah Qajar (1898-1930, reigned from 1909 until 1925), and instate himself as the next Shah of Iran. Initially, he had planned to declare the country a republic, as his contemporary Atatürk had done in Turkey, but abandoned the idea in the face of clerical opposition. The Majlis, convening as a constituent assembly, declared him the Shahanshah of Iran on December 12, 1925, pursuant to the Persian Constitution of 1906. Three days later, on December 15, he took his imperial oath, and thus became the first Shahanshah of the Pahlavi dynasty. Reza Shah’s coronation took place much later, on 25 April 1926. The medal was instituted on that occasion.