Catalog
200 Baisa
| Issuer | Central Bank of Oman |
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| Year | 1987-1994 |
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| Printer | Thomas De La Rue & Company, London, United Kingdom |
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| Obverse description | Intaglio portrait of Sultan Qaboos bin Sa'id in traditional Omani dress and turban at right, set against a multicolour guilloche underprint in shades of violet, ochre, and green. The Omani coat of arms appears at upper centre, with the Arabic bank title and denomination inscription in large calligraphic script occupying the centre of the note. The ornate border incorporates fine lathe-work scrollwork throughout. |
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| Variants | P#23a - 1987 P#23b - 1993 P#23c - 1994 |
| Comments |
The 200 Baisa sits at an odd denomination — neither the base unit nor a round fraction of the Omani rial, which divides into 1,000 baisa. Its existence reflects a deliberate attempt to fill a gap in everyday transactional use during a period when Oman's oil revenues were driving rapid commercialization of the economy and small-value paper notes were in genuine daily demand.
Thomas De La Rue produced the series across a seven-year window, an unusually long print run for a low-denomination note in an actively developing currency system.