5.000 Rials

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.