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10 Rials Rezā Pahlavī
| Issuer | Bank Melli Iran |
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| Year | 1932 |
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| Value | 10 Rials (10 IRR) |
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| Obverse lettering | بانک ملی ایران ده ریال |
| Reverse description | Brown on light underprint. Central oval vignette contains the Lion and Sun emblem — a crowned lion passant holding a sword before a rising sun — enclosed within a fine dotted border. The denomination numeral '10' appears in each corner, with the Persian inscription for 'Ten Rials' rendered in ornate calligraphic script on either side of the central vignette. A Faravahar (Zoroastrian winged symbol) is placed below the central medallion. The imprint 'AMERICAN BANK NOTE COMPANY.' appears at the lower margin. The bank name in Persian script is inscribed at the top. |
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Bank Melli Iran was established only in 1928, replacing the British-controlled Imperial Bank of Persia as the state bank and sole note-issuing authority — a deliberately nationalist move by Reza Shah during a period of aggressive modernization and foreign concession rollback. This 1932 note is among the earliest issues of that institution, printed by the American Bank Note Company at a time when Iran was actively redirecting its financial relationships away from British interests and toward American and European alternatives.
ABNC's intaglio work on the early Bank Melli series is finer than the lithographed issues that followed in later decades.