Trial strikes produced for the Central Bank of Iran in the early 1990s occupy an awkward institutional moment — the post-revolutionary monetary system was still consolidating types following the upheaval of the 1979 revolution and the economic strain of the Iran-Iraq War, which had ended only in 1988. Whether this piece advanced to circulation or was quietly shelved is answered by the KM# P prefix, which places it firmly among the pattern issues that never reached the public.
Trial strikes produced for the Central Bank of Iran in the early 1990s occupy an awkward institutional moment — the post-revolutionary monetary system was still consolidating types following the upheaval of the 1979 revolution and the economic strain of the Iran-Iraq War, which had ended only in 1988. Whether this piece advanced to circulation or was quietly shelved is answered by the KM# P prefix, which places it firmly among the pattern issues that never reached the public.