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20 Rials
| Issuer | Central Bank of Yemen |
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| Year | 1971 |
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| Printer | Bradbury Wilkinson and Company, United Kingdom (1856-1990) |
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| Obverse description | A central vignette presents the historic rock palace of Wadi Dahr, rendered in intaglio against a light guilloche underprint, positioned to the left of centre. Arabic inscriptions appear to the right, including the denomination in words and official banking authority text, with a manuscript signature below. The numeral '20' appears in the upper-left and lower-left corners, with a serial number running along the upper edge. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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The Yemen Arab Republic's early banknote series presented an immediate logistical problem: the country had no printing infrastructure of its own, and the newly established Central Bank, created in 1971, needed a credible currency fast. Bradbury Wilkinson, by then one of the most experienced security printers in the world, had handled similar commissions across the decolonizing world for decades.
P#9 is the first 20 Rial denomination issued under the Central Bank — prior issues came from the Yemen Currency Board. A single watermark for security, nothing more sophisticated, which was unremarkable for the region at that date.