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20 Tomans Muzaffar al-Din Shah
| Issuer | Imperial Bank of Persia |
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| Year | 1924-1932 |
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| Currency | Qiran (1825-1932) |
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| Obverse lettering | فقط در ( نام شهر) ادا خواهد شد تصویر ناصرالدین شاه قاجار بیست تومان تومان 20 بانک شاهنشاهی ایران مهر مامور دولت علیه ایران (Translation: Payable only at (city name) Imperial Bank of Iran Twenty tomans) |
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| Reverse lettering | THE IMPERIAL BANK OF PERSIA TWENTY TWENTY TOMANS BRADBURY, WILKINSON & Co. Ltd. ENGRAVERS, NEW MALDEN, SURREY, ENGLAND |
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The Imperial Bank of Persia was a British-chartered institution — established under a concession granted to Baron Julius de Reuter in 1889 — that functioned as Persia's state bank and sole note-issuing authority until Reza Shah established Bank Melli Iran in 1928. That transition didn't immediately end this series; notes continued to be dated into 1932 as the Imperial Bank wound down its circulation role over several years of awkward coexistence with the new national bank.
Muzaffar al-Din Shah died in 1907, nearly two decades before this print run began. His name on notes issued well into the Pahlavi period reflects the Imperial Bank's reluctance — or inability — to retool plates quickly as Persian political authority changed hands beneath it. Bradbury, Wilkinson produced the sheets in Surrey throughout.