Catalog
1 Dinar
| Issuer | Bahrain Monetary Agency |
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| Year | 1993-1998 |
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| Composition | Cotton paper |
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| Obverse lettering | مؤسسة نقد البحرين ورقة نقدية صادرة بموجب القانون رقم ٢٣ لسنة ١٩٧٣م دينار واحد رأس مال مؤسسة النقد |
| Reverse description | The reverse is dominated by a central intaglio vignette of the Bahrain Monetary Agency headquarters building rendered in blue-grey, set against a light multicolour guilloche underprint with ornamental latticework panels in red and teal. Three circular Dilmun seal motifs in red are arranged vertically to the right of the building. The issuer name "BAHRAIN MONETARY AGENCY" appears in English across the top in a red banner, with the English denomination "ONE DINAR" at lower right. |
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The Bahrain Monetary Agency replaced the Bahrain Currency Board in 1973, giving the island state its first fully independent central monetary authority following the end of the British protectorate. This 1 Dinar belongs to the third series issued under the BMA, which ran through most of the 1990s before the Authority was itself dissolved and reconstituted as the Central Bank of Bahrain in 2006.
Thomas De La Rue's involvement with Bahraini currency dates back to the earliest post-independence issues — continuity of printer across multiple series is typical for Gulf states that prioritized security relationships over competitive tendering.