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50 000 Rials Tehran University
| Issuer | Bank Markazi Jomhouri Islami Iran |
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| Year | 2015 |
| Type | Commemorative banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | بانک مرکزی جمهوری اسلامی ایران پنجاه هزار ریال |
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| Protection description | Portrait watermark of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini with denomination numeral '50000' below; windowed security thread embedded vertically in the paper |
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The 50,000 Rial note commemorates the University of Tehran, founded in 1934 as the first modern state university in Iran — a deliberate act of secular nation-building under Reza Shah that the Islamic Republic has since reframed within its own ideological priorities. The Bank Markazi continued issuing high-denomination rials in this period largely in response to chronic inflation; by the mid-2010s, 50,000 rials was worth well under two US dollars at official rates.
P#155 belongs to a series where the printed date field records the Iranian Solar Hijri calendar date, which external catalogs sometimes misrender or omit entirely — the "2015" designation is a Gregorian approximation.