Catalog
1000 Rials - Mohammad Rezā Pahlavī
| Issuer | Bank Markazi Iran |
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| Year | 1962-1965 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi in military uniform within an ornate oval guilloche frame, set against an intricate floral arabesque underprint in deep brown tones. The bank name in Persian script appears in a cartouche at the top centre, with the denomination in Persian script to the right of the portrait. The Persian calendar year 1341 is printed at the bottom centre, and two signature facsimiles appear to the lower right of the vignette. |
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| Obverse lettering | بانک مرکزی ایران یک هزار ریال ١٣٤١ |
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Harrison & Sons printed multiple denominations for Bank Markazi Iran throughout the early Pahlavi period, and the 1000 Rial was the highest-denomination note in general circulation at the time — a significant sum in an economy where oil revenues were beginning to reshape the urban professional class but rural wages remained extremely low. The note circulated across a three-year window that coincided with the early phase of the White Revolution, Mohammad Reza Shah's ambitious and deeply contested modernization program launched in 1963.
P#75 is sometimes found with ink transfer to the facing note, a known characteristic of the Harrison printing on this series, attributable to storage conditions in Iranian bank branches during the period.