Catalog
100 Rials - Mohammad Rezā Pahlavī
| Issuer | Bank Melli Iran |
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| Year | 1948-1951 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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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 lettering | صد ریال ۱۰۰ BANK MELLI IRAN کاخ داریوش شاه هخامنشی - تخت جمشید |
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Bank Melli Iran had relied on American Banknote Company for earlier Pahlavi-era issues, but the postwar shift to Harrison & Sons reflected a broader British commercial influence over Iranian financial infrastructure in the late 1940s — one that would become politically untenable within a few years. By 1951, Mossadegh's nationalization crisis had fundamentally altered the terms on which foreign firms could operate in Iran, and this series was retired accordingly.
P#50 is sometimes found with foxing along the edges, a known deterioration pattern common to Iranian paper issues of this period stored in humid conditions.