20 Rials Mohammad Rezā Pahlavī

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.