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| Issuer | Bank Melli Iran |
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| Year | 1948-1951 |
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| Currency | Second Rial (1932-date) |
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| Obverse description | Red-violet intaglio print on light green guilloche underprint. Portrait of Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi in military uniform positioned at right, with a central vignette of a winged lion within a multicolour ornamental oval medallion. Bank name in Persian script at top centre, denomination in both Persian and Arabic numerals at lower centre. |
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| Reverse description | Red-violet print overall. A large central vignette presents the ruins of the Palace of Darius at Persepolis, with standing columns and doorways rendered in fine line engraving against an open sky. Denomination panels appear at upper left and lower right in Persian script, with the Latin legend 'BANK MELLI IRAN' at the bottom centre. |
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| Protection description | Portrait watermark of Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi. |
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