Catalog
1/2 Dinar
| Issuer | Central Bank of Bahrain |
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| Year | 2016-2022 |
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| Value | 1/2 Dinar |
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| Obverse description | Vignette of the Old Court building in Manama occupies the central field, rendered against a warm ochre and rose guilloche underprint. Tactile marks for the visually impaired are positioned at centre right. Arabic and English inscriptions identify the issuing authority and denomination. |
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| Protection description | Watermark portrait of His Majesty King Hamad Bin Isa Al Khalifa, King of Bahrain; vertical security thread with 'CBB' text repetition running along the left portion of the note. |
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| Comments |
The half-dinar denomination has historically been the workhorse of Bahraini everyday commerce, handling small retail transactions in a country where the dinar's relatively high value against the dollar makes fractional notes genuinely practical. This P#30 issue belongs to the fourth series, introduced as a rolling replacement rather than a full redesign — earlier notes from the same series carry identical basic architecture, updated primarily for enhanced security compliance.
De La Rue's involvement here is unremarkable in itself; they have printed Bahraini currency continuously across multiple series. The security specification on this note is notably modest by current Gulf standards — watermark and thread only, without the polymer window or color-shift ink found on higher denominations within the same issue.