Catalog
5.000.000 Rials
| Issuer | Bank Melli Iran |
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| Year | 2000 |
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| Currency | Rial (1932-date) |
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| Reverse description | Plain light-coloured reverse with pre-printed fields for transaction details, including handwritten Persian inscriptions recording date (تاریخ), time (ساعت), and queue number (ردیف). A large cursive handwritten signature in blue ink and several rubber stamp impressions in red and green ink are applied across the surface. |
| Reverse lettering | شماره فیصال مبلغ نام ابر اتور تاریخ ساعت ردیف |
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| Comments |
Bank Melli Iran's five-million rial note belongs to the post-revolutionary series that quietly acknowledged a problem no official statement ever addressed directly: decades of inflation had so eroded the rial's purchasing power that denominations once considered extraordinary had become routine pocket change. Iran has periodically discussed redenomination — dropping four zeros and returning to the toman as the official unit — but as of this note's issue the debate had not produced legislation, leaving the central bank to simply print higher figures on the same basic format.
The "P#0" reference indicates this note hasn't been formally catalogued in the Pick system, which is not unusual for very high Iranian denominations issued after the major catalogues' data cutoffs.