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2.000.000 Rials
| Issuer | Bank Maskan |
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| Year | 2000 |
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| Currency | Rial (1932-date) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse presents a blue-toned cheque instrument issued by Bank Maskan, bearing the Farsi inscription ایران چک at upper centre and the numeral 2000000 at left. A vignette of the Ferdowsi mausoleum (آرامگاه فردوسی) appears at the lower right, rendered in fine intaglio style. The face includes printed fields for date, time, row number, account details, and payee name, with the denomination دو میلیون ریال inscribed in Farsi at lower left and a magnetic-ink character recognition (MICR) numeral strip along the bottom edge. |
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| Reverse lettering | IRAN CHEQUE TWO MILLION RIALS 2000000 مشخصات دریافت کننده وجه چک نام خانوادگی تاریخ و محل تولد شماره ملی امضاء گیرنده وجه |
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| Comments |
Bank Maskan is Iran's state-owned specialized housing bank, not a central bank, and its issuance of bearer instruments in rial denominations sits in an unusual regulatory space. This piece — denominated at two million rials — reflects the severe inflation that had eroded the rial through the 1990s, pushing even routine transactional values into seven-figure territory.
The MICR strip suggests a cheque or draft instrument designed for machine-readable clearing rather than hand-to-hand circulation. That distinction matters for classification: this may function more as a bank draft than a banknote in the conventional sense, which would explain the absence of a Pick number in the standard catalog.