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5 Dinars
| Issuer | Bahrain Monetary Agency |
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| Year | 1998 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Reverse description | Central vignette presents a detailed architectural rendering of Bahrain International Airport terminal building, with an aircraft in flight above; an eight-pointed star geometric medallion in guilloche forms a decorative panel at right, flanked by the numeral '5' at upper left and lower right corners; the issuer's name and denomination are inscribed in English along the upper and lower borders respectively. |
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| Protection type | Hologram, Security thread, Watermark |
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The Bahrain Monetary Agency's 1973-series designs — of which this 1998 fifth edition is a late continuation — were among the first Gulf banknotes to be produced with fully integrated machine-readable security architecture. By the late 1990s, De La Rue was incorporating windowed security threads and holographic foil strips as standard on Bahraini issues, partly in response to high-quality counterfeiting of earlier Gulf currency that had circulated through the region during the post-Gulf War economic disruption.
Pick 20 represents the final signature variety before Bahrain moved to a wholly redesigned series in the early 2000s.