Catalog
5000 Rials Islamic Revolution, Radiant Sun
| Issuer | Bank Markazi Iran (Central Bank of Iran) |
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| Year | 1981 |
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| Size | 154 × 75 mm |
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| Obverse description | Violet, red-orange and brown on multicolour underprint. Central vignette shows the Tazahurat procession with mullahs leading marchers bearing posters of Ayatollah Khomeini; a radiant sun guilloche appears at upper left. A vertical white security thread bearing the repeated legend BANK MARKAZI IRAN in black Persian script runs through the note. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse presents a detailed vignette of the Shrine of Lady Fatima Masumeh in Qom, with its gilded dome and minarets rendered against a multicolour underprint. The complex encompasses a burial chamber, three courtyards, and three mosques — the Tabatabai, Bala Sar, and A'dham — conveyed in fine intaglio line work. Denomination numerals and issuer inscriptions appear in both Persian and Latin scripts along the margins. |
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This note belongs to the transitional series issued immediately after the revolution, when the new Islamic Republic was still using De La Rue plates — an awkward arrangement that put a British commercial printer at the center of Iran's most symbolically charged currency. The revolutionary government had no immediate alternative; TDLR had been printing Iranian banknotes for decades under the Shah, and the infrastructure simply continued.
P#133 overprints and modifications distinguish it from its Pahlavi-era predecessors on what is otherwise a structurally identical substrate. The cotton paper and security thread specifications were inherited, not redesigned.