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10 000 Rials Islamic Revolution
| Issuer | Bank Markazi Iran |
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| Year | 1981-1983 |
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| Currency | Second Rial (1932-date) |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of a mass demonstration (tazahurat) with mullahs leading marchers carrying portraits of Ayatollah Khomeini, rendered in an intaglio-style composition. Persian inscriptions identifying the issuing authority and denomination appear across the upper and lower registers, with guilloche underprint patterns framing the design. |
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| Obverse lettering | بانک مرکزی ایران جمهوری اسلامی ایران ده هزار ریال (Translation: Bank Markazi Iran. Islamic Republic of Iran. Ten thousand rials.) |
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This note carries one of the more awkward production histories in modern Iranian currency. The Islamic Republic, having come to power on explicitly anti-Western principles, continued using Thomas De La Rue in London to print its banknotes well into the early 1980s — a pragmatic concession to the reality that no domestic facility could meet the volume or security standards required. The plates themselves were inherited from the late Pahlavi-era contract, retooled for revolutionary imagery.
Sanctions and political pressure eventually ended the De La Rue relationship, pushing Iran toward other suppliers. This issue sits at that transition.