Catalog
100 Riyals
| Issuer | Qatar Monetary Agency |
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| Year | 1980-1989 |
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| Value | 100 Riyals (100 QAR) |
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| Obverse description | The national arms of Qatar — a dhow with palm trees within a circular vignette — appears at right, set against an elaborate multicolour guilloche underprint. Arabic inscriptions identifying the issuing authority are placed at upper centre, with the denomination in Arabic script at centre. Two signature facsimiles appear below the central vignette, and the serial number is printed twice in Arabic-Indic numerals. |
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| Obverse lettering | مئة ريال وكالة النقد القطاري |
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The Qatar Monetary Agency was itself a transitional institution — created in 1973 after Qatar and Dubai's joint currency arrangement collapsed, it issued banknotes under its own authority until the Qatar Central Bank was established in 1993. This P#11 series belongs entirely to that intermediate period, produced by De La Rue across nearly a decade without a change in date printing, which makes precise dating within the 1980–1989 window difficult from the note alone.
De La Rue's intaglio work on Qatar's higher denominations during this period is notably fine, though the security specification here is minimal — watermark only, with no security thread.