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2.000.000 Rials
| Issuer | Bank Melli Iran |
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| Year | 2000 |
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| Value | 2.000.000 Rials |
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| Obverse description | Pink and green note with an unprinted oval void at left serving as a watermark area, flanked by intricate guilloche rosette underprints in green and pink. The Bank Melli Iran seal appears at upper left, with the issuing authority name in Persian script across the upper centre and denomination inscriptions in both Persian and English reading "TWO MILLION RIALS"; a diagonal blue-ink overprint carrying additional Persian text and a branch endorsement stamp is applied at right. Serial numbers appear in both upper and lower registers. |
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| Protection description | Blank oval watermark void visible at left of obverse; security thread embedded within the paper substrate |
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The two-million rial denomination was introduced as Iran's currency suffered the long-term inflationary effects of post-revolutionary economic isolation, the Iran-Iraq War's fiscal damage, and sustained US-led sanctions. By 2000, what had once been a substantial sum in rial terms had eroded to a fraction of its former purchasing power, and high-denomination notes became a practical necessity rather than a prestige issue.
Pick number is unassigned in standard catalogs, which suggests this piece may be a specimen, an essay, or a note that has not yet been formally catalogued — worth verifying provenance before attribution.