Catalog
100 Baisa
| Issuer | Central Bank of Oman |
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| Year | 1995 |
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| Printer | Giesecke+Devrient (Giesecke & Devrient), Leipzig, Germany (1852-date) |
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| Obverse description | Deep olive-green, dark green-blue and purple on multicolour underprint. A portrait vignette of Sultan Qaboos bin Sa'id appears at right, with a central vignette of an aflaj traditional irrigation system. Intricate guilloche patterns fill the underprint throughout the note. |
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| Obverse lettering | CENTRAL BANK OF OMAN ONE HUNDRED BAISA ١٠٠ |
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The 100 Baisa sits at the fractional end of Oman's decimal system, introduced after the 1970 currency reform that replaced the Gulf rupee and the old Maria Theresa thaler-based accounting with a clean 1000-baisa rial. This particular issue is the second series, introduced under Sultan Qaboos's aggressive modernization program and printed by Giesecke & Devrient in Leipzig — the firm's eastern German plant, which came fully back into the international market following reunification in 1990.
The 100 Baisa was discontinued as a banknote denomination in subsequent series, replaced in practice by coinage.