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100 Rials Imam Reza shrine
| Issuer | Bank Markazi Iran |
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| Year | 1981 |
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| Size | 142 × 71 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | بانک مرکزی ایران صد ریال بارگاه امام رضا وزیر امور اقتصادی و دارایی رئیس کل (Translation: Bank Markazi Iran. One Hundred Rials. Imam Reza Shrine. Minister of Economic Affairs and Finance. Governor.) |
| Reverse description | The central vignette presents an intaglio view of the Madressa Chahar Bagh in Isfahan, its ornate iwan portal and flanking minarets framed by tall trees rendered in fine line engraving. The issuer title BANK MARKAZI IRAN is inscribed in Roman script across the top within a decorative banner, with the denomination 100 RIALS in the lower right and numeral 100 repeated at both upper corners. Decorative floral and scrollwork borders in the prevailing violet-purple palette complete the design. |
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By 1981, the Islamic Republic had been using pre-revolution banknote stock with overprints and modified designs to expunge imagery deemed incompatible with the new order — Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi's portrait being the most obvious casualty. Thomas De La Rue had printed notes for Imperial Iran for decades, and the post-revolution government quietly continued that relationship even as anti-Western rhetoric intensified, a pragmatic contradiction that was never publicly acknowledged.
The watermark construction on this series is inherited from earlier De La Rue work for Bank Markazi, not newly commissioned security infrastructure.