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1000 Rials - Rezā Pahlavī 3rd. portrait, French text on reverse
| Issuer | Bank Melli Iran |
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| Year | 1937-1942 |
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| Currency | Second Rial (1932-date) |
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| Obverse description | Green on multicolour underprint. Three-quarter-face portrait of Shah Reza Pahlavi, bareheaded, positioned at right. Guilloche patterning frames the vignette, with Persian inscriptions across the upper and lower registers. |
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| Reverse lettering | 1000 RIALS BANQUE MELLIÉ IRAN DIX PAHLAVI MILLE RIALS (Translation: Bank Melli Iran Ten Pahlavi One Thousand Rials) |
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Bank Melli Iran's high-denomination notes of this period were printed by De La Rue in London under a long-running contract that predated the Pahlavi era. The French reverse text reflects Iran's use of French as its principal language of international finance and diplomacy through the 1930s — a convention carried over from Qajar-era banking practice rather than any particular issuer preference.
The series spans a politically turbulent window: Reza Shah abdicated under Anglo-Soviet pressure in September 1941, meaning notes dated to the later end of this range circulated under a different monarch than the one portrayed.