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20 Dinars
| Issuer | Bahrain Monetary Agency |
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| Year | 1998 |
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| Composition | Cotton paper |
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| Obverse lettering | مؤسسة نقد البحرين عشرون ديناراً رئيس مجلس مؤسسة النقد |
| Reverse description | Intaglio vignette of the Ahmed Al Fateh Islamic Centre (Grand Mosque) with its prominent dome and minarets occupying the left and centre portions of the note, set against a finely engraved architectural background. An ornate guilloche rosette in red and orange tones fills the right field, framed by decorative geometric borders. The issuer name and denomination appear in English along the upper and lower margins respectively. |
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Bahrain's shift from the Bahrain Currency Board to the Bahrain Monetary Agency in 1973 restructured how the island's currency was administered — though printing contracts with De La Rue in London continued uninterrupted through the transition and well into the following decades. This 1998 issue belongs to the second series issued under the Monetary Agency, introduced in 1993 to replace the first-generation BMA notes.
For a 1998-dated note, the security specification is notably lean — watermark only, at a time when most comparable Gulf issues had already adopted security threads. Whether that reflects a deliberate cost or procurement decision isn't documented in available sources.