The Bahrain Currency Board, established in 1964 to manage the dinar introduced that year, was superseded by the Central Bank of Bahrain in 2006 — making the issuing authority named on this coin technically obsolete before the series even began. Coins continued to carry the Currency Board attribution well into the 2010s, a bureaucratic lag not uncommon in Gulf states during institutional transitions.
The Bahrain Currency Board, established in 1964 to manage the dinar introduced that year, was superseded by the Central Bank of Bahrain in 2006 — making the issuing authority named on this coin technically obsolete before the series even began. Coins continued to carry the Currency Board attribution well into the 2010s, a bureaucratic lag not uncommon in Gulf states during institutional transitions.