1000 Rials - Mohammad Rezā Pahlavī 2nd. portrait

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Reverse description	Red-brown intaglio print on a pale guilloche underprint. A large central vignette presents a sweeping panoramic landscape of Mount Damavand with a winding river valley in the foreground, framed by ornate floral cornerpieces and fine guilloche borders. The issuer name in Latin script appears in a panel at the lower centre, with the denomination in Persian numerals at all four corners.
Reverse lettering	هزار ریال ۱۰۰۰ BANK MELLI IRAN (Translation: One Thousand Rials 1000 Bank Melli Iran)
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Comments	Bank Melli Iran had relied on British printing firms almost continuously since its founding in 1928, and this note continues that dependence — Harrison & Sons held the contract through much of the Pahlavi era, producing notes that circulated during one of Iran's most volatile political periods. The early 1950s brought the oil nationalization crisis and the eventual 1953 coup; high-denomination notes like this 1000 Rial issue were caught in the middle of severe inflationary pressure and public distrust of the banking system. P#53 is the second distinct portrait type for the denomination — a cataloguing distinction that matters more than it might appear, as the two types are frequently conflated in generalist collections.