Catalog
5 Rials Omani
| Issuer | Oman Currency Board |
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| Year | 1973 |
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| Currency | Rial (1972-date) |
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| Reverse description | Purple on multicolour underprint, centred vignette of Nizwa Fort with its distinctive round tower and surrounding walls, set against a landscape of hills and palm trees rendered in fine intaglio engraving. An ornamental guilloche border frames the composition on all sides, with the denomination numeral "5" appearing in the upper corners. The issuer's name is inscribed in English along the lower margin. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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The Oman Currency Board was itself a transitional institution — established in 1972 to replace the Muscat Currency Authority and dissolved in 1974 when the Central Bank of Oman took over. This note falls squarely in that two-year window, making the issuing body one of the shortest-lived monetary authorities in Gulf history.
Bradbury Wilkinson's New Malden facility had long been the preferred printer for newly independent and reorganizing states across the Middle East and Africa. Their intaglio work on this series is notably fine for the period.