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5.000 Rials
| Issuer | Bank Markazi Iran |
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| Year | 1983-1993 |
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| Value | 5.000 Rials |
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| Obverse description | The face is dominated by a large central vignette of a revolutionary procession, with dense crowds carrying banners and placards, among which a portrait of Ayatollah Khomeini is visible on an elevated poster. The denomination '5000' appears in Eastern Arabic numerals at lower left and lower right, while the bank title and state name in Persian naskh script run along the upper margin over a fine guilloche underprint in rose and pink tones. Serial numbers in dark ink appear at multiple positions across the face. |
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| Protection type | Watermark, Security thread |
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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.