100 Riyals 2006 Asian Games, Arabian Oryx

Qatar hosted the 15th Asian Games in December 2006 — the first Gulf state to do so — and the organizing effort required infrastructure construction on a scale that reshaped Doha's urban geography almost entirely within four years. The games drew 45 nations and over 9,500 athletes, making them the largest Asian Games to that point by participation.

The Arabian Oryx had been declared extinct in the wild by 1972 before a captive breeding program, partly anchored in Qatar and neighboring states, successfully reintroduced it to the Arabian Peninsula. Its selection here was pointed, not decorative.