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200 Rials Mohammad Rezā Pahlavī
| Issuer | Bank Markazi Iran (Central Bank of Iran) |
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| Year | 1974-1979 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Portrait of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi in military uniform with decorations at right, rendered in intaglio against a blue and green guilloche underprint. The denomination دویست ریال (200 Rials) appears in Persian script at centre-left, flanked by intricate floral vignettes and a rosette medallion in the lower left quadrant. The issuer's title بانک مرکزی ایران is inscribed across the upper border, with two facsimile signatures of bank officials appearing at centre. |
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| Reverse description | Central vignette of the Shahyad Aryamehr monument (now Azadi Tower) in Tehran, set within a decorative frame with guilloche patterning. The denomination and bank name appear in both Persian and Latin scripts in the surrounding borders. |
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The monument named "Shahyad Aryamehr" on the reverse of this note was renamed "Azadi Tower" after the 1979 revolution — the same monument, stripped of its imperial reference. Notes from this series that carry the Shahyad name were quickly pulled from circulation after the Shah's departure, and surviving examples with clear monument text represent the final years of Pahlavi-era currency production.
Three signature combinations exist across this issue, distinguishable partly by the star geometry in the back design — six-pointed stars appearing with the Yeganeh/Ansari pairing, twelve-pointed with the others. That geometric variation as a signature key is an unusual cataloguing device for the series.