Catalog
20 Dinars
| Issuer | Bahrain Monetary Agency |
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| Year | 2001 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Intaglio portrait of Shaikh Hamad bin Issa al Khalifa, King of Bahrain, in traditional dress and keffiyeh, positioned at right. At centre-left, a circular vignette contains a map of Bahrain above the national coat of arms, flanked by ornate guilloche underprint in orange and pale tones. Arabic inscriptions appear across the upper register, with the denomination in large Arabic numerals at upper-left and lower-right, and a serial number and signature line at lower centre. |
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| Protection type | Watermark, Security thread |
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The Bahrain Monetary Agency was established in 1973 to manage currency after Bahrain's full monetary independence from the Gulf rupee system, and the dinars it issued consistently ranked among the higher-denomination notes in the Gulf region's purchasing power — the 20 Dinar note sat near the top of the BMA's circulating range. Thomas De La Rue had printed Bahraini currency for decades by the time this series was produced, making the relationship one of the longer-standing sovereign print contracts in the Middle East.
The BMA was replaced by the Central Bank of Bahrain in 2006, rendering this series the last issued under that authority's name.