Azerbaijan, Baku, Mar.16/ Trend F.Milad
Each Bahar-e Azadi gold coin was sold at the price of 12.9 million rials at Iran's free market on Saturday.
Each Bahar-e Azadi gold coin was presented at the price of 13.2 million rials on Thursday.
Bahar-e Azadi Coin is an Iranian limited circulation minted gold coin offered by the Central Bank of Iran (CBI).
US dollar was also sold at the price of 33,400 rials at the free market on Saturday, while Euro was presented at the price of 44,000 rials.
Euro and US dollar were traded at the prices of 45,000 and 34,000 rials, respectively on Thursday.
The government has set the 28,500 rials price for the free market but the brokers refuse to trade dollar at the mentioned price.
Critics believe that Iranian government is not controlling the price of dollar at the free market on purpose. They claim that the government wants to take advantage of selling dollar at the free market in order to compensate its lack of budget.
The government maintains an official reference rate of 12,260 rials to the dollar, but only a limited amount of foreign exchange is available at this rate.