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500 Rials
| Issuer | Central Bank of the Islamic Republic of Iran for similar notes issued by the "Bank Markazi Iran" see IRAN P-137 & IRAN P-137A |
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| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | بانک مرکزی جمهوری اسلامی ایران ۵۰۰ پانصد ریال |
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| Reverse lettering | CENTRAL BANK OF THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN 500 FIVE HUNDRED RIALS سردر دانشگاه تهران |
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This note bridges the institutional identity shift from Bank Markazi Iran to the Central Bank of the Islamic Republic of Iran — the same physical plates, the same design, but reissued under the authority of the post-revolutionary state. The overprint or issuer change was a deliberate assertion of continuity in currency while simultaneously marking a clean break with the Pahlavi-era banking establishment.
P-137 and P-137A are the pre-revolutionary siblings; P-137b is where the Islamic Republic formally takes ownership of the series.