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5.000.000 Rials
| Issuer | Bank Melli Iran |
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| Year | 2000 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | بانک ملی ایران پنج میلیون ریال مدیر عامل رئیس هیات مدیره 5000000 |
| Reverse description | The reverse is designed in the style of a bearer cheque form, printed in golden-ochre and brown guilloche patterns with 'IRAN CHEQUE' in bold Latin capitals across the upper centre and '5000000' in large numerals at upper right and vertically at left. 'FIVE MILLION RIALS' is inscribed in English across the lower register. The central field contains printed form lines in Persian for recipient details including name, father's name, national identity number, and contact information, with handwritten manuscript entries visible on the illustrated example. |
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Bank Melli Iran introduced the 5,000,000 Rial denomination in 2000, a direct consequence of decades of inflation that had progressively rendered lower-value notes functionally useless for everyday transactions. By the late 1990s, Iran's cumulative inflation since the 1979 revolution had eroded purchasing power so severely that multi-million rial notes were a practical necessity rather than a prestige issue.
The Pick number remains unassigned in standard catalogs, suggesting this note either circulated in very limited quantities, was a specimen or specimen-adjacent release, or simply hasn't been formally catalogued — worth verifying against the most current IBNS or Krause updates before attribution.