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Auction: 24038 - The Dr. Martin M Mortazavi Collection of Persian Banknotes
Lot: 83

(x) Bank Melli, Iran, Specimen 100 Rials, ND (1944), serial number N/000000 18,
this is an exceptional brown 100 Rial banknote from the 1944 Issues. Despite larger denominations being printed during Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi's issues, this note stands as the highest denomination of the 1st series. With only 900,000 issued notes ever printed, the majority of them met their fate in destruction, rendering the surviving examples exceedingly rare,


(Pick 43s, BNB 138as), in PMG holder 53 NET About Uncirculated, printer´s annotations, previously mounted, ink stamp, only 3 notes in higher grades on PMG Census

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Sold for
£3,500

Starting price
£600