Catalog
1/2 Rial
| Issuer | Central Bank of Oman |
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| Year | 1995 |
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| Value | 1/2 Rial |
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| Reverse description | The central vignette presents Al-Hazm Fort rendered in fine intaglio line work, with Nakhl Fort illustrated separately to the right and identified by bilingual labels in Arabic and English. A large denomination numeral '1/2' appears at the upper right, flanked by a multicolour guilloche underprint with repeating microtext 'HALF RIAL' and geometric latticework along the left panel. The date '1416 H / 1995 G' is printed at the lower right. |
| Reverse lettering | CENTRAL BANK OF OMAN Half Rial 1/2 قلعة نخل NAKHL FORT حصن الحزم AL-HAZM FORT 1416 H/1995 G |
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| Comments |
The half-rial denomination has had an awkward place in Omani monetary practice — useful enough to keep printing but too large for small transactions, it occupies a niche that reflects the rial's considerable purchasing power relative to most Gulf currencies of the period. This 1995 issue belongs to the third series of Central Bank of Oman notes, introduced gradually through the mid-1990s as the country moved toward more sophisticated security standards.
G&D's Leipzig facility handled the printing. For a note of this era, the security specification is notably spare — watermark alone, without the foil strips or security threads that were becoming common among comparable Gulf issues by the mid-decade.