Catalog
100 Rials - Mohammad Rezā Pahlavī
| Issuer | Bank Melli Iran |
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| Year | 1946 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Portrait of Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi in military uniform at right, set within a guilloche border in violet and orange tones. A stylized floral vignette with ornate foliate scrollwork occupies the center, with the denomination inscription in Persian script below. The bank title appears in the upper register, flanked by repeated serial number panels at upper left and lower corners. |
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| Reverse description | Central vignette of the historic ancient bridge at Dezful spanning a river, rendered in a detailed intaglio-style engraving in violet. The composition is framed by a guilloche border with denomination cartouches at each corner. The bank title inscription appears prominently above the vignette in Persian script. |
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Bank Melli Iran had used Bradbury, Wilkinson for earlier series, but the postwar transition brought Harrison & Sons into the picture for this 1946 issue — a shift that reflected both wartime disruptions to engraving capacity and Britain's ongoing commercial involvement in Iranian financial infrastructure during the occupation period. The Anglo-Soviet invasion of 1941 had left Iran's economy under considerable external pressure, and the notes circulating in its aftermath carried that instability quietly in their paper.
Pick 44 is sometimes confused with adjacent issues in the same Harrison-printed series; the watermark is the primary differentiator when signatures or serial prefixes are ambiguous.