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20 Rials

Issuer Central Bank of Yemen
Year 1990
Type Standard circulation banknote
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Variants P#26a - without shading around Bank title on front
P#26b - with shading around Bank title on front
Comments

The 1990 date places this note at an awkward political moment: the merger of the Yemen Arab Republic and the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen occurred in May of that year, and the unified Republic of Yemen required rapid consolidation of two separate monetary systems. Thomas De La Rue printed both pre-unification Yemeni notes and several early unified issues, providing a thread of continuity across the transition.

A print run just over twelve million is modest for a denomination in active circulation, and attrition has been predictable.

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