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100 Baiza
| Issuer | Muscat and Oman Currency Board |
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| Year | 1970 |
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| Value | 100 Baiza (0.10) |
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| Reverse lettering | 100 BAIZA SULTANATE OF MUSCAT AND OMAN |
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| Protection description | the national arms (crossed khanjar and swords) |
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Pick 1 marks the first standardized paper currency issued in what had been, until 1970, one of the most financially isolated states in the world. Sultan Said bin Taimur had resisted paper money for decades; it was his son Qaboos, after the July 1970 palace coup, who moved quickly to establish the Currency Board and bring Oman into the modern monetary system.
Bradbury Wilkinson produced the full inaugural series. The 100 Baiza is the lowest denomination of that founding set — fractional, almost transitional in purpose, bridging the old Indian Gulf Rupee arrangements that had informally served the territory for years.