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SCWPM.#144a - TBB.#279a - جمهوری اسلامی ایرانDate: ND (2005) - Grade: Unc - Signature: 26
Description: Colour: Pink, yellow, and green. - Front: Farsi text; Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. - Back: English and Farsi text; Kaaba at the Holy Mosque in Mecca. - Solid security thread with printed Farsi script (Bank Markazi Jomhouri Islami Iran) - Watermark: Ruhollah Khomeini. - Back: intaglio printing - Printer: (TAKAB). - Size: 151 x 74 mm. - Material: Paper.
More about Persia/Iran
Iran is home to one of the world's oldest civilizations, beginning with the formation of the Elamite kingdoms in the fourth millennium BC. It was first unified by the Medes in the seventh century BC and reached its territorial height in the sixth century BC, when Cyrus the Great founded the Achaemenid Empire. Alexander the Great conquered the empire in the fourth century BC, and it was subsequently divided into several Hellenistic states. An Iranian rebellion established the Parthian Empire in the third century BC, which was succeeded in the third century AD by the Sasanian Empire. Arab Muslims conquered the empire in the seventh century AD, leading to its Islamization; Iran thereafter became a major center of Islamic culture and learning. Over the next two centuries, a series of native Iranian Muslim dynasties emerged before the Seljuk and the Mongols conquered the region. In the 16th century, the native Safavids re-established a unified Iranian state. Under the reign of Nader Shah in the 18th century, Iran presided over the most powerful military in the world, though by the 19th century, a series of conflicts with the Russian Empire led to significant territorial losses. The early 20th century saw the Persian Constitutional Revolution. Efforts to nationalise its fossil fuel supply led to an Anglo-American coup in 1953. After the Iranian Revolution, the current Islamic republic was established in 1979 by Ruhollah Khomeini, who became the country's first supreme leader.
