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500 Rials 1971 'light panel' issue
| Issuer | Bank Markazi Iran |
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| Year | 1971-1974 |
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| Printer | Harrison & Sons Limited, High Wycombe, United Kingdom (1839-1997) |
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| Obverse description | Centre vignette carries an intaglio-printed portrait of Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi in military uniform, set within a circular guilloche frame against a light pink underprint of intricate floral and arabesque scrollwork. The bank title in Persian script is contained within an ornate cartouche at top centre, flanked by border panels in dark grey-brown; the denomination پانصد ریال appears in large Persian numerals and script to the right. Two facsimile signature panels are positioned below the portrait. |
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| Reverse description | The central vignette renders the Marlik Grail (Jaam-e Marlik) motif as a pair of confronted winged lions rearing on either side of a stylised Tree of Life, executed in fine intaglio line engraving after the ancient Iranian artefact. A circular guilloche rosette at lower left bears the numeral 500 with RIALS above, while the denomination is repeated in Persian numerals and script in all four corners of the interlocking geometric and floral lattice border in dark brown. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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