The check is used like regular banknote all over the country. However, it is cancelled when presented to a bank for deposit.

Front: Tachar Palace-Perspolis ruins in Shiraz

Back: Calligraphic text; Islamic design of flower

The check is used like regular banknote all over the country. However, it is cancelled when presented to a bank for deposit.

Front: Tachar Palace-Perspolis ruins in Shiraz

Back: Calligraphic text; Islamic design of flower

This 100,000 Rials note is the highest denomination banknote ever issued by the country. It reduces the need for using the 1,000,000 Rial cashier's checks in large transactions.

Front: Ayatollah Seyyed Ruhollah Khomeini (1900-1989), spiritual leader of the 1979 Islamic Revolution

Khomeini was born Ruhollah Mousavi in the town of Khomein about 180 miles south of Tehran. He came from a well-known religious family that claimed to be the descendent of Prophet Muhammad. In 1921 he began his formal religious studies in an Islamic seminary in Arak and later in the holy city of Qom. After graduation, He taught Islamic jurisprudence, philosophy and mysticism for many years and wrote numerous books on the subjects. He became an Ayatollah in the 1920s.

Back: Persian poet Saadi (1184-1291)'s Masoleum in Shiraz

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