Catalog
5 Riyals
| Issuer | Qatar Monetary Agency |
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| Year | 1973 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Central circular vignette at right enclosing the Qatar arms with a dhow and palm tree, surrounded by intricate guilloche scrollwork. Arabic inscriptions identify the issuing authority across the upper register, with the denomination in Arabic numerals and text at centre-left. A single manuscript signature appears below the central text block, with an Arabic title inscription beneath it. |
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| Reverse description | Intaglio vignette of the Qatar National Museum at left centre, rendered in fine line engraving against a light guilloche underprint with decorative scroll ornaments at the corners and right side. The issuer name in English appears in bold letterpress across the upper portion, with the denomination in numerals at both lateral margins and in English text along the lower margin. |
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Qatar did not have its own central bank in 1973 — the Qatar Monetary Agency was established in 1966 as a currency-issuing authority rather than a full banking institution, a status it retained until the Qatar Central Bank replaced it in 1993. This note belongs to the QMA's first series, introduced following Qatar's full independence in 1971 and the dissolution of the Qatar and Dubai Currency Board arrangement that had preceded it.
Bradbury Wilkinson, then operating out of New Malden, had extensive Gulf region printing contracts during this period. The watermark is the sole security feature — unremarkable by later standards, but consistent with regional practice for low-denomination notes of the early 1970s.