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500.000 Rials
| Issuer | Bank Mellat |
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| Year | 2000 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | The obverse of this Bank Mellat traveller's cheque is printed on salmon-pink tinted paper with a fine guilloche underprint. At upper right, the issuing bank's name appears in Persian script alongside the denomination 500,000, with a serial number repeated at upper right and lower left. The central vignette presents a tall modernist tower building rendered in red-brown intaglio, flanked by a large hexagonal security seal at right and a blank hexagonal countersigned panel at left; a date field in Persian numerals appears below the vignette, with the denomination in words at lower right. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed on the same salmon-pink stock with a light guilloche background. The upper left carries the bilingual legends BANK MELLAT and TRAVELLER'S CHEQUE in bold Latin script, with FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND RIALS in English at upper centre-right. A large hexagonal security vignette with a concentric rosette design occupies the left field alongside a countersignature space, while a red-bordered panel at the bottom carries a Persian-script encashment condition clause; the numeral 500000 appears in large figures at lower right. |
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Bank Mellat is not a central bank — it is one of Iran's large state-owned commercial banks, which makes this note unusual. Central bank issuance in Iran falls to Bank Markazi; a 500,000-rial denomination carrying a commercial bank's name suggests this is either a certified cheque, a bank draft, or a cashier's instrument rather than a circulating banknote in the conventional sense. The Pick number is unassigned, which is consistent with that ambiguity.
Without a confirmed Pick reference, the precise printing source and full security specification remain unverified. The serial numbering and security seal are minimal features for a denomination of this size, pointing toward internal institutional use rather than open retail circulation.