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500.000 Rials
| Issuer | Bank Mellat |
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| Year | 2000 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in the same rose-pink palette, with IRAN CHEQUE in Latin capitals within an ornamental frame at upper centre and FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND RIALS in English along the lower margin. The left half carries a large lattice-pattern guilloche panel with repeated denomination figures 500,000 in vertical columns, while the right half presents a structured form with ruled lines and Arabic-script field labels for personal and transaction data. |
| Reverse lettering | IRAN CHEQUE FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND RIALS محل عملیات شعبه نام جاودانگی نام پدر تاریخ و محل تولد شماره ملی امضای گیرنده وجه |
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Bank Mellat is one of Iran's major commercial banks, nationalized after the 1979 Revolution along with the rest of the private banking sector. A banknote issued directly by a commercial bank rather than the central bank — Bank Markazi Iran — is immediately unusual for any post-revolutionary period, and the reference gap (P#0) reflects genuine cataloguing uncertainty about this piece.
Whether this circulated as a legitimate bearer instrument, a commemorative, or an internal banking document is not established in standard references. Treat provenance claims with caution until corroborated.