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200 Rials
| Issuer | Bank Markazi Iran |
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| Year | 1964 |
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| Value | 200 Rials (200 IRR) |
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| Obverse description | Intaglio portrait of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi in three-quarter view at right, set against an elaborate guilloche underprint in rose and blue tones. A dark cartouche at top centre carries the bank title in Persian script, flanked by arabesque border ornaments, with the denomination in Persian numerals at lower left and right corners. Two manuscript signatures appear in the central field above the denomination inscription in Persian calligraphy. |
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| Reverse lettering | BANK MARKAZI IRAN RIALS 200 دویست ریال راه آهن شمال پل ورسک |
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Harrison & Sons held the Iranian contract through much of the 1960s, printing the bulk of the Pahlavi-era series from their High Wycombe facility. The 200 Rial denomination was relatively high-value for everyday transactions at the time — oil revenues were beginning to reshape the economy, but per capita income remained modest enough that a 200 Rial note represented serious purchasing power for most Iranians.
P#81 preceded the major design revisions that followed the 1979 revolution, after which surviving Pahlavi-issue notes were systematically overstamped or withdrawn. Unaltered examples from this issue become harder to find in original circulated condition precisely because so many passed through that redemption process.