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500 Rials - Mohammad Rezā Pahlavī 7th. portrait, 'Dark Panel'
| Issuer | Bank Markazi Iran |
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| Year | 1969 |
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| Value | 500 Rials (500 IRR) |
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| Obverse lettering | بانک مرکزی ایران پانصد ریال (Translation: Bank Markazi Iran Five Hundred Rials) |
| Reverse description | Black intaglio on pink and blue guilloche underprint. Central vignette of the ancient Marlik goblet motif, rendered with winged bulls flanking a stylised tree in a composition drawn from pre-Islamic Iranian art. Denomination and bank name appear in both Western and Eastern Arabic numerals along the margins. |
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By the late 1960s, Harrison & Sons had become the dominant printer for Iranian paper currency, a relationship that would persist until the Revolution made British involvement politically untenable. The "Dark Panel" designation distinguishes this issue from earlier 500 Rial notes in the same Pahlavī series — the tonal shift in the underprint was a deliberate security modification, not a design refresh, intended to complicate photographic counterfeiting at a time when that method was the primary threat.
Pick 88 sits at the upper end of the denominations in everyday circulation during Iran's oil-boom expansion. High-value notes from this period often show heavy fold wear; the 160mm width made wallet storage awkward.