10 Riyals

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.