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| Issuer | Central Bank of the Islamic Republic of Iran |
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| Year | 2026 |
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| Currency | Second Rial (1932-date) |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of the Jameh Mosque of Yazd, a UNESCO-listed historic Friday mosque rendered in fine line engraving. Denomination 1000 (Tomans) and Persian inscriptions appear alongside the issuer title and Iran Cheque designation. |
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| Reverse description | Latin-script bilingual legends occupy the face of the note, with the denomination stated numerically as 10000000 and in words as TEN MILLION RIALS, flanked by the issuer name in English and the Iran Cheque designation. |
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Iran's domestic security paper mill in Āmol — TAKAB — has supplied substrate for Iranian banknotes since 2002, reducing dependence on foreign printers that had complicated procurement under sanctions regimes. Whether this note's full production remained in-country or involved any offshore component for the intaglio or security thread work is not publicly confirmed.
The denomination itself reflects the cumulative weight of inflation: one thousand tomans was a meaningful sum within living memory of older Iranians, and the government's periodic redenomination proposals — including a long-discussed shift to a new rial scale — have made the toman's informal status as the unit of everyday speech increasingly awkward against official currency nomenclature.