Iran issues new 50,000-rial note featuring nuclear insignia
12 03, 2007 17:45 Category: Middle East
50,000 rials (US$5.40), ND (2007). Issued March 12, 2007. Orange and lemon. Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini as portrait and watermark along with electrotype denomination, 2.5 mm windowed security thread, and registration device. Map of Persian Gulf with electrons orbiting an atom, and a legend from Prophet Mohammed: “If the science exists in this constellation, men from Persia will reach it,” on back. 166 x 79 mm.
Courtesy of Central Bank of the Islamic Republic of Iran and Hamid Reza Ebrahimi.
