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100 Rials Persian Empire
| Issuer | Bank Markazi Iran |
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| Year | 1971 |
| Type | Commemorative banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | بانک مرکزی ایران محمد رضا شاه (Translation: Central Bank of Iran Shah Pahlavi) |
| Reverse description | Three circular vignettes arranged horizontally across the centre, each framed by ornate guilloche borders: at left, a health corps scene with a physician and family; at centre, an agriculture corps vignette with a tractor operator in a field; at right, an education corps scene with students at a desk. Each medallion bears a corps emblem below its respective scene, corresponding to the White Revolution's service corps programmes. |
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P#98 belongs to the series introduced after the 1971 Persian Gulf celebrations — a state event of considerable political ambition in which Mohammad Reza Shah staged a lavish commemoration at Persepolis marking 2,500 years of Iranian monarchy. The timing of this note's release was deliberate, coinciding with a broader effort to project imperial continuity through official currency.
Thomas De La Rue had printed Iranian notes since the mid-twentieth century, and their work on this series is competent but unremarkable by their own standards. The watermark remains the primary security measure — modest for a denomination of this weight.