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500 Rials Mohammad Rezā Pahlavī
| Issuer | Bank Markazi Iran |
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| Year | 1962-1965 |
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| Size | 170 × 78 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | بانک مرکزی ایران پانصد ریال (Translation: Bank Markazi Iran / Five Hundred Rials) |
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| Reverse lettering | BANK MARKAZI IRAN RIALS 500 پانصد ریال ۵۰۰ (Translation: Bank Markazi Iran / Five Hundred Rials / 500) |
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Harrison & Sons held the Bank Markazi Iran contract through much of the 1960s, printing successive signature varieties of this denomination as the central bank cycled through governors — Ebrahim Kashani, Mehdi Samii, and Ali Asghar Poor-Homayoun each appear across the P#74 series. The signature combinations are the primary tool for dating individual examples within the 1962–1965 window, as the printed date is absent from the face entirely.
These notes circulated hard. High-denomination paper in a rapidly modernizing oil economy took real punishment, and genuinely unworn examples from this run are difficult to source.