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10 Rials 40th National Day
| Issuer | Central Bank of Oman |
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| Year | 2010 |
| Type | Commemorative banknote |
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| Obverse description | Portrait of Sultan Qaboos bin Said at center right, wearing traditional Omani dress with a turban, set against a multicolored guilloche underprint with geometric latticework borders. To the left, a vignette of a historic Omani tower and palm trees is visible, with the commemorative emblem for the 40th National Day in the lower left. Arabic inscriptions and the value numeral "10" appear at top and in the right margin. |
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| Protection type | Watermark, Security thread |
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Issued to mark the 40th National Day of Oman in 2010 — commemorating Sultan Qaboos bin Said's accession to power in 1970, when he deposed his father in a palace coup backed by British officers. The commemorative 10 Rial denomination is not trivial; at the time of issue it represented roughly $26, making this a genuinely high-value celebratory note rather than a token gesture.
G&D's Leipzig facility has printed Omani currency across multiple series. The security package here is relatively restrained for a commemorative of this period, with no polymer substrate or optically variable ink — notable given that neighboring Gulf states were already adopting more aggressive anti-counterfeiting measures by 2010.