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5000 Rials Islamic Revolution, Radiant Sun
| Issuer | Bank Markazi Iran (Central Bank of Iran) |
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| Year | 1981 |
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| Currency | Second Rial (1932-date) |
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| Obverse lettering | بانک مرکزی ایران جمهوری اسلامی ایران پنج هزار ریال (Translation: Bank Markazi Iran. Islamic Republic of Iran. Five Thousand Rials) |
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| Protection description | Arms (coat of arms of the Islamic Republic of Iran); White vertical thread with repeated BANK MARKAZI IRAN inscription in black Persian lettering |
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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.