20 Rials

Bradbury Wilkinson printed the early Omani rial series during a period when the sultanate was still consolidating control over its own financial infrastructure — the Central Bank of Oman itself had only been established in 1974, replacing the Currency Board that had managed the rial since its introduction in 1973. This note belongs to that first generation of properly sovereign currency.

Bradbury Wilkinson closed in 1990 after being absorbed into De La Rue, making the window for their Omani commissions relatively short. The New Malden facility handled security printing for dozens of newly independent or newly reorganized central banks through the 1970s.