20 Dinars

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.