Catalog
100 Rials Persian Empire
| Issuer | Bank Markazi Iran |
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| Year | 1971 |
| Type | Commemorative banknote |
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| Obverse description | Portrait of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi in full military dress uniform as Commander in Chief of the Iranian Armed Forces, positioned at right. The design incorporates guilloche underprint patterns and Persian inscriptions identifying the issuing authority. |
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| Reverse description | Three circular vignettes arranged horizontally across the centre, each framed by ornate guilloche borders: at left, a health corps scene with a physician and family; at centre, an agriculture corps vignette with a tractor operator in a field; at right, an education corps scene with students at a desk. Each medallion bears a corps emblem below its respective scene, corresponding to the White Revolution's service corps programmes. |
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| Comments |
P#98 belongs to the series introduced after the 1971 Persian Gulf celebrations — a state event of considerable political ambition in which Mohammad Reza Shah staged a lavish commemoration at Persepolis marking 2,500 years of Iranian monarchy. The timing of this note's release was deliberate, coinciding with a broader effort to project imperial continuity through official currency.
Thomas De La Rue had printed Iranian notes since the mid-twentieth century, and their work on this series is competent but unremarkable by their own standards. The watermark remains the primary security measure — modest for a denomination of this weight.