Katalog
| Emittent | Sultanate of Muscat and Oman |
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| Jahr | 1970 |
| Typ | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Vorderseitenbeschreibung | Green and purple note with intricate guilloche border framing the entire face. The national arms — crossed khanjar daggers and two crossed swords — appear in an ornate cartouche at right, with Arabic inscriptions naming the Sultanate of Muscat and Oman across the top panel. The denomination in Arabic script is rendered in purple intaglio at centre-left, with a serial number repeated above and below. |
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| Rückseitenbeschreibung | Green and purple vignette of Sumail Fort set against a rocky hillside landscape, with palm groves in the foreground rendered in fine intaglio engraving. The fraction '1/2' appears at upper left and right corners flanking the inscription 'RIAL SAIDI', repeated on both sides. The lower margin carries the full English legend 'SULTANATE OF MUSCAT AND OMAN' within a plain panel, above an ornate guilloche border. |
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| Anmerkungen |
Muscat and Oman's currency board issued this series in 1970 — the same year Sultan Qaboos deposed his father Said bin Taimur in a palace coup backed by the British. The timing matters: Said had deliberately kept Oman isolated and underdeveloped, and the new administration moved quickly to modernize, including replacing this very note type with a new issue under the renamed Sultanate of Oman within months of the transition.
Bradbury Wilkinson printed the series at New Malden before the political change made it almost immediately obsolete, which accounts for the relative scarcity of used examples in the half-rial denomination.