Catalog
20 Buqshas
| Issuer | Yemen Arab Republic Currency Board |
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| Year | 1966 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Vignette of an alabaster funerary head, rendered in intaglio, positioned at left centre against a green guilloche underprint. Arabic inscriptions occupy the upper right field, with the denomination in Arabic script and numerals centrally placed; a signature appears below the central text panel. The serial number is printed in green at both upper right and lower left. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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The Yemen Arab Republic was barely three years old when this note was printed. The Currency Board — rather than a full central bank — was the issuing authority by design: the new republic lacked the institutional infrastructure for a proper central bank and relied on transitional frameworks to establish basic monetary operations. Bradbury Wilkinson produced the series at their New Malden facility, a logical choice given the firm's long history supplying notes to newly independent states across the Middle East and Africa.
The buqsha subdivision, equal to one-fortieth of a riyal, disappeared from circulation well before unification in 1990. Low-denomination paper buqsha notes were never popular in trade and largely vanished through attrition.