Azerbaijan, Baku, Feb.27/ Trend F.Milad
Each Bahar-e Azadi gold coin was sold at the price of 14.5 million rials at Iran's free market on Wednesday.
It is while the price of gold coin stood at 14.15 million rials on Tuesday.
Bahar-e Azadi Coin is an Iranian limited circulation minted gold coin offered by the Central Bank of Iran (CBI).
US dollar was also sold at the price of 38,000 rials at the free market on Wednesday, while Euro was presented at the price of 50,000 rials.
Euro and US dollar were traded at the prices of 50,000 and 37,700 rials, respectively on Tuesday.
The government has set the 28,500 rials price for the free market but the brokers refuse to trade dollar at the mentioned price.
Critics believe that Iranian government is not controlling the price of dollar at the free market on purpose.
They claim that the government wants to take advantage of selling dollar at the free market in order to compensate its lack of budget.
The government maintains an official reference rate of 12,260 rials to the dollar, but only a limited amount of foreign exchange is available at this rate.
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