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100 Rials Overprint
| Issuer | Bank Markazi Iran |
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| Year | 1979 |
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| Printer | Thomas De La Rue & Company, London, United Kingdom |
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| Obverse description | Maroon on orange, green and multicolour underprint with a Persian carpet vignette as the central design element. The Shah's portrait has been obliterated by an arabesque guilloche overprint applied during the 1979 Islamic Revolution transitional issue. Denomination and issuing authority appear in both Persian and Latin scripts. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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This note is a transitional issue produced immediately after the 1979 revolution: an existing Shah-era 100 Rials printed by De La Rue had the royal imagery obscured by overprint rather than replaced with an entirely new design. The provisional measure bought time while the new Islamic Republic established its own iconographic vocabulary for currency. Several overprint variants exist for this period, distinguished by the precise placement and typography of the applied text — P#112B represents one configuration within that short-lived series.
De La Rue had supplied Iran's banknotes for decades under the Pahlavi government. The revolutionary authorities continued using the same printer, at least temporarily.