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1/4 Rial Saidi
| Issuer | Currency Board of Muscat and Oman |
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| Year | 1970 |
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| Printer | Bradbury Wilkinson and Company, United Kingdom (1856-1990) |
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| Reverse description | Printed in blue with a multicolour floral guilloche vignette at right, the reverse centres on an intaglio vignette of Jalali fortress rising from a rocky promontory above the sea. The denomination fraction '1/4' appears in large numerals at upper left and right within an ornate scroll border, with the issuer inscription in English along the lower margin. |
| Reverse lettering | 1/4 RIAL SAIDI SULTANATE OF MUSCAT AND OMAN |
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The Currency Board of Muscat and Oman had existed since 1959, replacing the Indian rupee with the Rial Saidi — a currency that itself had a remarkably short lifespan. By late 1970, Sultan Qaboos had deposed his father Said bin Taimur in a palace coup and set about modernizing the state; the entire Rial Saidi series was withdrawn and replaced by the Rial Omani within a few years, making these notes among the last issued under the old political order.
Bradbury Wilkinson printed the series at New Malden, as they did for dozens of colonial and post-colonial currency boards across the sterling area. The 1970 date places this note right at the political hinge point.