Iranian rial banknotes are the banknote

Banknote

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Iranian rial

The rial is the currency of Iran. It is subdivided into 100 dinar but, because of the very low current value of the rial, no fraction of the rial is used in accounting....

, the currency of Iran

Iran

Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran , is a country in Southern and Western Asia. The name "Iran" has been in use natively since the Sassanian era and came into use internationally in 1935, before which the country was known to the Western world as Persia...

. They are issued by the Central Bank of Iran, each bearing the signature of the President of the Iranian Central Bank. The 100, 200 and 500 rial banknotes are becoming increasingly uncommon; shopkeepers habitually give out small packages of gum in lieu of the last 500 rials of change.

Specification

Current Series
Image		Value	Dimensions (millimetres)	Main Colour		Description
Obverse	Reverse					Obverse	Reverse
		100	130 X 67		Purple	Hassan Modarres Hassan Modarres Seyyed Hassan Modarres , was an Iranian Twelver Shi'a cleric and a notable supporter of the Iranian Constitutional Revolution. He was among the founding members, along with Abdolhossein Teymourtash, of the reformist party Hezb-e Eslaah-talab of the time, which was formed during the fourth...	Old building of Islamic Consultative Assembly
		200	136 X 69		Green	Jame' Mosque Jame mosque of Yazd The Jāmeh Mosque of Yazd is the grand, congregational mosque of Yazd city, within the Yazd Province of Iran. The mosque is depicted on the obverse of the Iranian 200 rials banknote.-History:...  of Yazd Yazd Yazd is the capital of Yazd Province in Iran, and a centre of Zoroastrian culture. The city is located some 175 miles southeast of Isfahan. At the 2006 census, the population was 423,006, in 114,716 families....	Jahad-e Sazandegi (جهاد سازندگی)
		500	142 X 71		Gray-Green	Friday prayers	University of Tehran main entrance University of Tehran main entrance The University of Tehran main entrance was designed in 1965 by Korosh Farzami, one of the students of the faculty of Fine Arts of the University.The structural engineer was an Armenian-Iranian by the name of Simon Sarkissian....
		1,000	148 X 73		Brown	Ruhollah Khomeini Ruhollah Khomeini Grand Ayatollah Sayyed Ruhollah Musavi Khomeini was an Iranian religious leader and politician, and leader of the 1979 Iranian Revolution which saw the overthrow of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran...	Dome of the Rock Dome of the Rock The Dome of the Rock is a shrine located on the Temple Mount in the Old City of Jerusalem. The structure has been refurbished many times since its initial completion in 691 CE at the order of Umayyad Caliph Abd al-Malik...
		2,000	151 X 74		Onion-skin purple	Ruhollah Khomeini	Kaaba Kaaba The Kaaba is a cuboid-shaped building in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, and is the most sacred site in Islam. The Qur'an states that the Kaaba was constructed by Abraham, or Ibraheem, in Arabic, and his son Ishmael, or Ismaeel, as said in Arabic, after he had settled in Arabia. The building has a mosque...
		5,000	154 x 75		Brown-Olive	Ruhollah Khomeini	Omid satellite Omid Omid is a common Persian male given name, meaning hope...
		10,000	160 x 77		Green	Ruhollah Khomeini	Mount Damavand Mount Damavand Mount Damāvand also known as Donbavand, a potentially active volcano and the highest peak in Iran, has a special place in Persian mythology and folklore...
		20,000	163 X 78		Blue	Ruhollah Khomeini	Naqsh-e Jahan Square
		50,000	166 X 79		Ochre	Ruhollah Khomeini	Map of Iran with Atom symbol, quote in Persian from the prophet Mohammed, and "Persian Gulf Persian Gulf The Persian Gulf, in Southwest Asia, is an extension of the Indian Ocean located between Iran and the Arabian Peninsula.The Persian Gulf was the focus of the 1980–1988 Iran-Iraq War, in which each side attacked the other's oil tankers... " in English
		100,000	166 X 79		Light olive greenish	Ruhollah Khomeini	Saadi's Masoleum in Shiraz Shiraz Shiraz may refer to:* Shiraz, Iran, a city in Iran* Shiraz County, an administrative subdivision of Iran* Vosketap, Armenia, formerly called ShirazPeople:* Hovhannes Shiraz, Armenian poet* Ara Shiraz, Armenian sculptor...

External links

• Central Bank of Iran - Statistics