Catalog
5 Rials 1964
| Issuer | Central Bank of Yemen |
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| Year | 1964-1967 |
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| Printer | Bradbury Wilkinson and Company, United Kingdom (1856-1990) |
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| Reverse description | An intaglio vignette to the right portrays the ancient 'Lion of Timna' sculpture — a stone lion ridden by a human figure, a celebrated Sabaean artefact — rendered in fine line engraving. A large blank oval guilloche panel occupies the left centre, flanked by ornamental border work with diamond-shaped corner devices. The denomination appears in an elaborate floral cartouche at centre, with the numeral '5' repeated in each corner. |
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| Protection description | the national arms (eagle) visible in the blank oval panel on the reverse side when held to light. |
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Yemen's Central Bank was itself barely established when this note entered circulation — the institution was founded in 1961, only three years before this series was issued, making the entire monetary infrastructure of the country effectively new. The Yemen Arab Republic had emerged from the 1962 revolution that deposed the Imamate, and the subsequent civil war, which drew in Egyptian and Saudi forces on opposing sides, ran the full length of this note's issued dates.
Bradbury Wilkinson printed for dozens of newly independent and post-revolutionary states during this period, and their New Malden facility handled the Yemen account without incident. Pick 2 is the second note ever catalogued for this issuer — there wasn't much before it.