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1000 Rials - Mohammad Rezā Pahlavī
| Issuer | Bank Markazi Iran |
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| Year | 1962-1965 |
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| Currency | Second Rial (1932-date) |
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| Reverse description | Central intaglio vignette of the Tomb of Hafez (Aramgah-e Hafez) in Shiraz, rendered in fine engraving and showing the domed open-air pavilion surrounded by tall trees and formal gardens. The bank name "BANK MARKAZI IRAN" is printed in Latin script within a cartouche at the top, with the denomination "1000" and Persian script repeated in the lower corners. A large blank oval to the right serves as the watermark area. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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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.