Order of the Crown (Iran)

The Order of the Crown was founded in 1913 by Ahmad Shah Qajar before his coronation as the highest dynastic and state order. Until 1926 it existed in two classes. The 1st class had a collar reserved for the Shahanshah and the Crown-Prince. The Order was preserved in Iran after the fall of the Qajar dynasty.
The first Shah of the Pahlavi dynasty, Reza Shah, reformed the order at the end of the year in 1938/39. Until then, the sash was blue with thin green-white borders but, after the reform, it became corn-yellow with sky-blue edges.The order was the senior one after the dynastic Order of Pahlavi. It was abolished in 1979 following the Iranian revolution.