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5000 Rials Imam Reza shrine
| Issuer | Bank Markazi Iran |
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| Year | 1980 |
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| Value | 5000 Rials (5000 IRR) |
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| Obverse description | A detailed vignette of the Imam Reza shrine in Mashhad occupies the right portion of the note, rendered with architectural precision against a finely worked guilloche underprint in rose and pale green tones. At left, the circular seal of the Islamic Republic of Iran is printed in dark ink within an ornate frame. The denomination in Persian script appears centrally, accompanied by two vertical serial numbers in red at left and lower right. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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Pick 130 was part of the immediate post-revolutionary overhaul of Iranian currency imagery, issued after the new Islamic Republic moved to replace the Pahlavi-era note designs with iconography appropriate to the new order. The 5000 Rial denomination had been the highest in regular circulation under the Shah, making it a particular priority for ideological replacement.
Thomas De La Rue continued printing Iranian notes into the early revolutionary period — a pragmatic arrangement that outlasted the political rupture of 1979 by several years, given Iran's lack of domestic high-security printing capacity at the time.