When you travel to Iran so before you visit Iran you need to know more information about currency in Iran. The official currency of Iran is called Rials also known as toman. Another fact about Iran currency is that through daily monetary processes is used as a substitution for Rials. For this purpose, one "toman" equals 10 Rials. If you consider this exchange as something confusing, don’t worry, just put your finger on the last zero of the currency, in order to find out how much that is in Toman. During your Iran tour, you will understand how is currency in Iran and how you can use it. It’s not a tough task you will understand within few minutes.

Iranian banknotes come in various forms such as

Banknotes currently in circulation are 1000, 2000, 5000, 10,000, 20,000, 50,000 and 100,000 Rials.

Iran cheques/Cash cheques of 500,000 and 1,000,000 Rials denominations.

Iranian Coins currently in circulation are 500, 1,000, 2,000, 5,000 Rials.

No international Credit Cards/Debit cards also no international ATM or Traveler's cheques can be used in Iran in one word we have no international financial communication system currently.

The traveler should have enough cash during the trip. Most of all kind of international currency easily can be the exchange in bank and forex office. The currency that you can bring to Iran and change here without facing any problem is.

USD – US Dollar

CAD – Canadian Dollar

NZD – New Zealand Dollar

AUD – Australian Dollar

GBP – British Pound

EUR – Euro

CHF – Swiss Franc

TRY – Turkish lira

Among you can bring one of them it also depends on your country of origin and your own choice but we prefer you to bring USD or EUR. These you can change easily anywhere and at good exchange rates.

Pay attention some of the hotels also help you to change your currency in IRR or handicraft shops are ready to receive dollar or euro but the exchange rate will be set by them, so it's better for you to exchange your money through the money-changing not through the bank as the rates are different.