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| Issuer | Central Bank of the United Arab Emirates |
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| Year | 2021 |
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| Value | 50 Dirhams |
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| Obverse lettering | مصرف الإمارات العربية المتحدة المركزي خمسون درهمًا ورقة نقدية مضمونة القيمة بموجب القانون الِْإمَارَات THE EMIRATES (Translation: Central Bank of the United Arab Emirates Fifty Dirhams Guaranteed Value Banknote by Law The Emirates) |
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| Reverse lettering | CENTRAL BANK OF THE UNITED ARAB EMIRATES FIFTY DIRHAMS |
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The UAE's 50th anniversary note is among the first polymer issues from Oumolat Security Printing LLC, a joint venture established specifically to bring banknote production onshore — previously, UAE currency had been printed abroad. That shift was itself a deliberate expression of industrial ambition tied to the jubilee year, and the polymer substrate was chosen in part to showcase the facility's capabilities with a materially demanding format.
TBB#253 remains lightly collected outside the Gulf. Its long-term secondary market behavior will depend almost entirely on whether the Central Bank continues with polymer or reverts to cotton paper for future issues.