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1 Rial Saidi
| Issuer | Sultanate 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 | Predominantly red and olive-green intaglio print on a pale guilloche underprint. The national arms of Muscat and Oman — crossed khanjar daggers and swords within a white cartouche — appear at the right, with Arabic inscriptions giving the issuer name and denomination arranged across the centre and upper fields. An ornate floral guilloche border frames all four sides of the note. |
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| Reverse description | A detailed vignette of Sohar Fort occupies the central field, rendered in red intaglio against a lightly tinted sky with palm trees in the foreground. The upper border carries an arabesque guilloche band, while the lower margin bears the bilingual denomination inscription in bold serif lettering flanking the issuer name. |
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The Sultanate of Muscat and Oman issued this series under Said bin Taimur, the isolationist sultan who restricted roads, schools, and hospitals and famously prohibited Omanis from wearing glasses or using radios without permission. His son Qaboos overthrew him in a palace coup in July 1970 — the same year this note was issued — and promptly renamed the country the Sultanate of Oman. Notes from this series therefore carry a state name that effectively ceased to exist within months of their printing.
Bradbury Wilkinson produced currency for dozens of colonial and post-colonial governments from their New Malden works; their intaglio printing is consistent across the series.