Catalog
50 Dirhams Silver Arms
| Issuer | Central Bank of the United Arab Emirates |
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| Year | 1425-2011 |
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| Currency | Dirham (1973-date) |
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| Obverse description | A vignette of an Arabian oryx stands at right against a lilac and rose-tinted guilloche underprint, with the UAE coat of arms at centre. The denomination in Arabic numerals appears in octagonal panels at left and right, flanking the central Arabic inscriptions. Two signature panels with titles appear at lower centre beneath the primary legends. |
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| Protection type | Watermark, Security thread |
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The UAE's switch to silver-arm denominations in 2011 was driven partly by counterfeiting pressure on the older series, which had shown vulnerability at the 50-dirham level specifically. The revised security thread on this issue runs as a windowed rather than fully embedded strip — a meaningful upgrade over P#22 and its predecessors.
Cotton substrate on UAE notes of this period occasionally shows foxing along the edges under humid Gulf storage conditions, a known issue with this series rather than exceptional damage.