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5000 Rials Provisional Issue, Type 1
| Issuer | Bank Markazi Iran (Central Bank of Iran) |
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| Year | 1979 |
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| Printer | De La Rue (Thomas de la Rue; Thomas De La Rue & Co.; TDLR), London, United Kingdom (1821-date) |
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| Obverse description | Purple on pink, green and multicolour underprint. A Persian carpet vignette occupies the centre of the note, while an arabesque guilloche overprint is applied over the former Shah's portrait at right, obscuring it as part of the provisional Islamic Republic issue. Persian script denominations and bank inscriptions appear in the upper and lower registers. |
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| Reverse lettering | 5000 BANK MARKAZI IRAN 5000 5000 RIALS (Translation: Central Bank of Iran 5000 Rials) |
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When the Islamic Revolution swept the Shah's government from power in early 1979, the new authorities faced an immediate practical problem: millions of banknotes bearing the image of Mohammad Reza Shah were still in active circulation. The provisional solution was crude by design — existing De La Rue-printed stock was overprinted to obscure the royal portrait rather than waiting months for entirely new plates and paper to be produced.
Pick 116 represents the first type of that overprint, applied to what had been the standard pre-revolutionary 5000 Rial note. The urgency shows. This is a revolutionary stopgap, not a considered redesign.