Catalog
10 Riyals
| Issuer | Saudi Arabian Monetary Authority |
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| Year | 2016-2017 |
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| Value | 10 Riyals |
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| Obverse description | At right, a portrait vignette of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, King Salman Bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, set against a guilloche underprint. The central vignette presents the Murabba Palace in Riyadh, constructed by King AbdulAziz Bin Abdul Rahman, with Arabic inscriptions above identifying the Saudi Arabian Monetary Authority along with the Royal Decree number, date, and the name of King Abdullah. At the lower center, the denomination in Arabic numerals appears between the facsimile signatures of the Minister of Finance and the Governor of the Saudi Arabian Monetary Authority. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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| Comments |
The P#39 series was one of the last paper issues from SAMA before the authority made a decisive shift toward polymer substrates. Thomas De La Rue has printed Saudi currency since the 1960s, a relationship that has outlasted multiple redesigns and denomination restructurings — the 2016–2017 dating on this note reflects a transition period during which both paper and polymer versions of the 10 Riyal denomination were in simultaneous production and circulation.
Watermark-only security on a note from this period is notably thin by contemporary standards, which partly explains the move away from paper for this denomination.