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200 Rials - Mohammad Rezā Pahlavī
| Issuer | Bank Melli Iran |
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| Year | 1951 |
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| Printer | Harrison & Sons Limited, High Wycombe, United Kingdom (1839-1997) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is engraved in a uniform deep blue, dominated by a wide central vignette of the Si-o-se-pol (Allahverdi Khan Bridge) in Isfahan, its thirty-three arches reflected in the Zayandeh River below. A large blank circular watermark panel occupies the right side of the central field. The border is composed of repeating architectural and foliate motifs, with lion-head corner ornaments; the English inscription "BANK MELLI IRAN" runs along the top and "RIALS 200" along the bottom. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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The P#58 200 Rials was issued during one of the most turbulent stretches in twentieth-century Iranian political history — Mohammad Mosaddegh's nationalization of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company had inflamed British-Iranian relations to the point of economic blockade, and the government was operating under severe fiscal pressure. Harrison & Sons, a long-standing Crown printer based in High Wycombe, had supplied Iranian banknote work through this period, maintaining the contract even as diplomatic relations deteriorated.
The series is known for ink adhesion inconsistencies on some examples, likely tied to paper supply disruptions during the early 1950s.