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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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| Obverse description | Blue and brown intaglio print on a fine guilloche underprint; the national arms of Muscat and Oman — crossed khanjar daggers and swords — appear as a vignette at right. Arabic inscriptions dominate the centre and upper field, giving the issuer name and denomination, with serial numbers printed in blue at upper left and lower right. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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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his father Said bin Taimur in a palace coup and set about modernizing the state; the entire Rial Saidi series was withdrawn and replaced by the Rial Omani within a few years, making these notes among the last issued under the old political order.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.