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1 Dinar
| Issuer | Central Bank of Bahrain |
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| Year | 2006 |
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| Printer | De La Rue Currency, Basingstoke |
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| Obverse description | The left half of the obverse carries an intaglio vignette of Al Hedya Al Khalifya School in Muharraq, rendered in deep red-brown line engraving against a multicolour guilloche underprint in red, orange and yellow tones. Upper right bears the Arabic legend of the Central Bank of Bahrain and the statutory issuance clause in red script, while a circular optically variable ink element appears in the upper centre. The denomination in Arabic script, دينار واحد, is set within an ornate arabesque cartouche along the lower portion, with two facsimile signatures to the right. |
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| Reverse lettering | Central Bank of Bahrain 1 ONE DINAR |
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The Central Bank of Bahrain replaced the Bahrain Monetary Agency in 2006, and this note was part of the first currency series issued under the new institutional name — a change driven by the 2006 Central Bank of Bahrain Law rather than any monetary crisis or reform of the currency itself. The dinar's peg to the US dollar, fixed since 1980 at 0.376 BHD per dollar, remained entirely unchanged.
De La Rue's Basingstoke facility handled production, and the optically variable ink on the denomination numeral shifts between two colors under different viewing angles — one of the more effective anti-counterfeiting measures in Gulf-region notes of that period.