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20 Dinars
| Issuer | Central Bank of Algeria |
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| Year | 1982-1983 |
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| Value | 20 Dinars (20 DZD) |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of a Roman arch flanked by an amphora at left and traditional handicraft motifs at right, rendered in intaglio against a multicolour guilloche underprint. The denomination and issuing authority appear in Arabic and French inscriptions. The issue date is printed in the lower right corner. |
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| Reverse description | A mounted musician on horseback occupies the upper left portion of the note, positioned above the denomination numeral. The central vignette presents the ruins of the Great Mosque of Qal'a of Beni Hammad, a UNESCO World Heritage site, rendered with architectural detail against a multicolour guilloche background. |
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Algeria's post-independence banknote program was handled almost entirely by foreign printers through the 1960s and 1970s, but by the early 1980s the Banque Centrale d'Algérie had developed enough domestic capacity to bring more production in-house. The 20 Dinars P#133 sits in that transitional period, issued during a stretch when oil revenues were propping up the state budget and the dinar was still nominally pegged under tight exchange controls that made the note's street value quite different from its official one.
The single watermark is the only security provision — no thread, no fluorescent ink. Modest even by the standards of the period.