Catalog
2.000.000 Rials
| Issuer | Bank Melli Iran |
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| Year | 2000 |
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| Currency | Rial (1932-date) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed on a salmon-pink and light-blue toned ground with fine guilloche underprint. At right centre, an intaglio vignette of the Ferdowsi Mausoleum in Tus is rendered in blue-grey. The numeral '2000000' appears in large blue digits at lower centre-left, with the denomination spelled out in Persian script ('دو میلیون ریال') below. The Bank Melli Iran seal and two manuscript signature lines with printed Persian labels ('مدیرعامل' and 'نام و امضاء نماینده وزارت') occupy the central field, with the serial number printed in red at upper right and in black along the lower margin. |
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| Obverse lettering | ایران چک بانک ملی ایران دو میلیون ریال 2000000 مدیرعامل نام و امضاء نماینده وزارت |
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Bank Melli Iran's two-million-rial denomination sits at the upper end of a currency that had been relentlessly devalued since the 1979 revolution — by 2000, the rial had lost roughly 99% of its pre-revolutionary value against the dollar, and high-denomination notes were a practical necessity rather than a prestige issue. The catalog reference P#0 suggests this piece has not been formally assigned a Pick number, which may indicate it is a commemorative, a specimen, or an issue that postdates the standard catalogs.