^ Rudi Matthee, Willem Floor: The Creation of a Modern National Mint . In: The Monetary History of Iran: From the Safavids to the Qajars ( en ). IBTauris, 2013, ISBN 9780857721723 : "The official, festive inauguration of the Mint took place a year later, on 14 June 1877, when it was officially opened by the shah [Naser al-Din]."
^ Christian Funke: Aesthetics and Politics of Redesigning Iranian Banknotes: Arab Wind, the Persian Gulf and the Absence of Nuclear Energy . In: International Bank Note Society Journal . 55, No. 2, 2016, pp. 40-45.