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5 Riyals
| Issuer | Qatar Central Bank |
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| Year | 2003 |
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| Size | 140 × 67 mm |
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| Obverse description | The Qatar Central Bank coat of arms occupies the centre of the obverse, framed by ornate architectural columns and triple-arched vignettes executed in intaglio. The denomination numeral '5' in Arabic script appears three times across the face, integrated into a fine guilloche underprint. Bilingual Arabic inscriptions run across the upper and lower registers identifying the issuing authority and denomination. |
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| Protection description | Falcon head and denomination numeral watermark visible when held to light |
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Qatar Central Bank's 2003 series marked the institution's first major redesign since the Qatar and Dubai Currency Board notes of the 1960s. Thomas De La Rue has printed Qatari currency continuously since those earliest issues, making this one of the longer unbroken printer-issuer relationships in Gulf note production.
The watermark is the sole listed security feature — modest by the standards of the period, when most contemporaneous Gulf issues were incorporating security threads and color-shifting inks as baseline specifications.