The Oman Currency Board was a transitional authority, established in 1972 to manage the country's coinage and notes following the currency reform that replaced the Gulf Rupee and the earlier Sa'idi Rial. This 1973 series was among the first issues under that board, printed by Bradbury Wilkinson at their New Malden works — a firm with deep roots in intaglio security printing that handled numerous Gulf and Commonwealth issues through the postwar decades.
The Currency Board itself was short-lived. The Central Bank of Oman absorbed its functions in 1974, making this series one of the few issued under that specific authority before it was dissolved.
The Oman Currency Board was a transitional authority, established in 1972 to manage the country's coinage and notes following the currency reform that replaced the Gulf Rupee and the earlier Sa'idi Rial. This 1973 series was among the first issues under that board, printed by Bradbury Wilkinson at their New Malden works — a firm with deep roots in intaglio security printing that handled numerous Gulf and Commonwealth issues through the postwar decades.
The Currency Board itself was short-lived. The Central Bank of Oman absorbed its functions in 1974, making this series one of the few issued under that specific authority before it was dissolved.