Catalog
50 Rials
| Issuer | Bank Markazi Iran |
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| Year | 1965 |
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| Value | 50 Rials |
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| Obverse description | Green and multicolour note with a guilloche underprint at centre-left. A portrait vignette of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi in dark suit appears at right within an ornate floral medallion border. The denomination in Persian numerals (۵۰) appears in each corner, with the bank name in Persian script across the top centre and the value in Persian script at centre. |
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| Protection description | Portrait watermark of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi |
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P#79 belongs to the first series issued under the Bank Markazi Iran name, which replaced the Bank Melli Iran as the central bank following the 1960 monetary reform. Harrison and Sons held the Iranian contract through much of the 1960s, printing successive series as the Shah's government sought a more internationally credible note design — a deliberate distancing from the earlier state-bank issues.
The watermark on this series is a repeated pattern rather than a single portrait anchor, which distinguishes it from the later Bank Markazi issues that adopted a more sophisticated security specification.