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20 000 Rials
| Issuer | Central Bank of the Islamic Republic of Iran |
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| Year | 2009 |
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| Value | 20 000 Rials |
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| Reverse description | Central vignette of the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem, the third holiest site in Islam, set against a decorative multicolour guilloche underprint. The architectural composition includes the mosque's distinctive dome and surrounding courtyard, with denomination and bank inscriptions in both Farsi and English arranged along the upper and lower margins. |
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| Protection type | Watermark, Security thread |
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| Comments |
P#150A was introduced as part of the post-reform redenomination push, though Iran never fully carried through the conversion from rials to tomans at the note level — a recurring policy indecision that left multiple overlapping series in simultaneous circulation for years. The 20,000-rial denomination itself was a practical response to chronic inflation that had been eroding purchasing power since the early 1980s, accelerated sharply by international sanctions and oil revenue volatility.
The security thread specification on this series was upgraded from earlier 20,000-rial printings, making P#150A distinguishable from its near-identical predecessors primarily by that feature rather than any design change.