Tehran, Iran, May 7
By Milad Fashtami - Trend:
Each Bahar-e Azadi gold coin was sold at the price of 10.11 million rials at Iran's free market on May 7.
Each Bahar-e Azadi gold coin was presented at the price of 10.15 million rials on Tuesday, Iran's IRNA News Agency reported on May 7.
Bahar-e Azadi Coin is an Iranian limited circulation minted gold coin offered by the Central Bank of Iran (CBI).
U.S. dollar was also sold at the price of 32,950 rials at the free market on May 7, while Euro was presented at the price of 46,900 rials.
U.S. dollar and Euro were traded at the prices of on 33,100 and 46,860 rials on Tuesday.
Iran's national currency, the rial, lost about 50 percent of its foreign exchange value in less than a week in October 2012, standing at 35,500 versus the dollar. It was close to 10,000 in early 2011.
The government has set the 28,500 rials price for the free market but the brokers refuse to trade dollar at the mentioned price.