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3 Tomans Nasr-ed-Din Shah
| Issuer | Imperial Bank of Persia |
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| Year | 1890-1923 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Multicoloured note with an elaborate guilloche border in red and green surrounding the entire face. A vignette at left centre shows the Lion and Sun emblem within an oval frame, while a portrait vignette at right depicts Nasr-ed-Din Shah in uniform within a matching oval. The denomination سه تومان (Three Tomans) is inscribed in Persian script at centre, with the bank title بانک شاهنشاهی ایران across the top. A circular seal vignette appears at lower centre between two manuscript signatures. |
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| Obverse lettering | بانک شاهنشاهی ایران سه تومان فقط در طهران ادا خواهد شد مهر مامور دولت علیه ایران |
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The Imperial Bank of Persia was itself a British concession — chartered in 1889 under a grant from Nasr-ed-Din Shah that gave it the exclusive right to issue banknotes throughout Persia. That concession, negotiated by Baron Julius de Reuter, was deeply controversial; Iranian merchants and clergy resented the bank's foreign ownership, and paper currency issued under a British charter circulated in an environment of chronic public distrust.
The date range on this type runs to 1923, long after Nasr-ed-Din Shah's assassination in 1896, meaning the same plate continued printing notes bearing a dead ruler's name for nearly three decades.