Catalog
5.000 Rials
| Issuer | Bank Markazi Iran |
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| Year | 1983-1993 |
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| Currency | Rial (1932-date) |
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| Reverse lettering | ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN BANK MARKAZI IRAN FIVE THOUSAND RIALS 5000 |
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| Protection description | the Lion and Sun emblem or a geometric pattern, visible when the note is held to light; vertically embedded security thread running through the paper. |
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| Comments |
This note was first issued in 1983, four years into the Islamic Republic, during a period when the Central Bank was systematically replacing pre-revolutionary imagery across the entire banknote series. The P#139 series ran for a full decade — an unusually long print run that produced significant variation in serial number prefixes and signature combinations, reflecting successive changes in Bank Markazi governorship through a turbulent stretch of the Iran-Iraq War and its economic aftermath.
The war created chronic inflationary pressure, and 5,000 Rials — once a substantial sum — had lost considerable purchasing power well before the series was retired in 1993.