Tehran gold and coin prices close lower on Saturday while the global ounce holds flat

Iran's domestic gold and coin market held its losses through the close of trading hours on Saturday, 25 July 2026. In the 17:30 Tehran time update, a gram of 18-carat gold traded at about 183 million rials (roughly 18.3 million tomans) and a mesghal of melted gold at 792.8 million rials (79.28 million tomans). The new-design Emami coin stood at 184.5 million tomans, the Bahar Azadi coin at 180 million tomans, the half-coin at 94 million tomans and the quarter-coin at 53 million tomans.

Price sources do not fully agree on the exact size of Saturday's decline, reporting the drop in 18-carat gold at between roughly 2% and 3%; both sources put the Emami coin's fall at about 2.1%.

What distinguishes this session is that the decline did not track the global market: at the same hour, spot gold stood at $4,052 an ounce, essentially unchanged (down 0.01%), with silver at $58.18. On that basis, Saturday's move in the domestic market reflected the open-market exchange rate rather than the world price of the metal.