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20 Rials Mohammad Rezā Pahlavī
| Issuer | Bank Markazi Iran |
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| Year | 1958-1961 |
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| Reference(s) | P#72 |
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| Obverse lettering | بانک مرکزی ایران بیست ریال |
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| Protection description | Portrait watermark of Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi |
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Harrison & Sons held the Bank Markazi Iran contract through much of the late 1950s and into the 1960s, producing a series that bridged the post-Mossadegh political consolidation and the Shah's accelerating modernization push. The 1958 start date places this issue just a few years after the 1953 coup that restored Mohammad Reza to effective power, a moment that had briefly interrupted Iranian central banking operations entirely.
P#72 is among the more routinely encountered notes from this Harrison-printed run, having circulated heavily in a cash-dominant economy. Worn examples vastly outnumber anything approaching uncirculated.