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20 Rials
| Issuer | Central Bank of Yemen |
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| Year | 2004 |
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| Thickness | 1.5 mm |
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| Obverse description | The brass-plated steel centre features the denomination in large Arabic numerals (٢٠) above the Arabic word for rial (ريال), with the Latin numeral '20 RIALS' inscribed along the lower inner rim of the stainless steel ring. The Arabic legend 'البنك المركزي اليمني' (Central Bank of Yemen) appears along the upper portion of the outer ring, flanked by the Hijri date 1425 on the right and the Gregorian date 2004 on the left. The two-tone bimetallic design is framed by a dotted border separating the central disc from the outer ring. |
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| Reverse lettering | سقطرى شجرة الاخوين (Translation: Socotra Brothers Tree) |
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Yemen's bimetallic coinage program expanded in the early 2000s as the government sought more durable, harder-to-counterfeit denominations for everyday transactions — the rial had suffered significant inflationary pressure following the 1990 unification of the Yemen Arab Republic and the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen, a merger that required absorbing two separate currency systems into one.
The brass-on-steel construction was a cost-driven choice; solid brass blanks had become prohibitively expensive for high-volume circulation coinage across much of the developing world by this period.