Pahlavi Crown
The Pahlavi Crown was used by the Pahlavi dynasty of Iran as the official crown.
After the end of Kadscharenherrschaft the Pahlavi took the Peacock Throne in 1925. Their first monarch Reza Shah was a group of jewelers, headed by Haj Serajeddin the contract to manufacture a new crown, which should be equipped with motifs of Sassanian period to a glorious section of the Persian history to remember.
The crown is made of a frame of gold and silver as well as a hat-shaped cap made of red velvet. It is 298 mm high and 198 mm in diameter. Its weight is 2080 g It carries 3,380 diamonds totaling 1,144 carats. Furthermore, there are 369 beads and five large emeralds on the crown. The very broad pierced hoop bears at the top and bottom of each of a number of beads, which are again flanked on top and bottom with narrow bands of diamonds. The hoop carries alternating Sassanid motifs in the form of crossed curved lines, which are diamond-studded and diamond rosettes, which are connected by golden triangles with the edges.
About the hoop, there are four very large spikes that can easily bulge out and on its top in the form of stepped battlements. The prongs are each filled with a large diamond formation, which consist of large diamond rosettes, of which brilliantly studded on all sides bands like sun rays go out. The big stone in that formation on the front is a 60 carats pale yellow diamond. In the interstices of the diamond suns are surrounded by diamonds emeralds. The top of the steps battlements decorated with a continuous band of pearls. The upper half of the velvet cap carrying four clasp -like motifs of diamonds, similar to those on the hoop. Another such motif of crossed lines, which holds a white feather aigrette, stands above a diamond rosette, which is located on the front of the crown above the waves and framing a 100 carat large emerald.
The crown was twice used in a coronation. On April 25, 1926 Reza Shah was on October 26, 1967 and Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, crowned with her.
The crown is now in the Crown Jewels Museum of the National Bank in Tehran.