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100 Tomans
| Issuer | Imperial Bank of Persia |
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| Year | 1890-1923 |
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| Currency | Qiran (1825-1932) |
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| Obverse lettering | تصویر ناصرالدین شاه قاجار صد تومان بانک شاهنشاهی ایران مهر مامور دولت علیه ایران (Translation: The name of the city to be used is written at the top of the banknote . Imperial Bank of Iran Portrait of Nasr-ed-Din at right. One Hundred Toman Lion and Sun & Payable Only at Teheran (In some cases the sentence (-- will only be used in Tehran--- فقط در طهران ادا خواهد شد --- ) is written above. Not on the right)) |
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| Reverse lettering | THE IMPERIAL BANK OF PERSIA ONE HUNDRED TOMANS |
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The Imperial Bank of Persia was a British-chartered institution, established under a concession granted by Naser al-Din Shah in 1889, giving it the exclusive right to issue banknotes throughout Persia. That concession was deeply controversial from the start — Iranian merchants and clerics resented the arrangement, and public distrust of paper money meant high-denomination notes like this 100 Toman piece saw almost no genuine circulation among ordinary commerce. They were instruments of large mercantile and government transactions, if used at all.
Bradbury Wilkinson's printing plates for this series remained in service across an unusually long window, which is why notes dated across three decades can show nearly identical physical characteristics.