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50 Riyals
| Issuer | Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency |
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| Year | 1961-1976 |
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| Value | 50 Riyals |
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| Obverse description | At centre, a vignette of the Prophet's Mosque (Al-Masjid an-Nabawi) in Medina, rendered with architectural detail in multicolour intaglio. A portrait of King Faisal bin Abd al-Aziz Al Saud appears to the right, framed within a guilloche border. Arabic inscriptions and the denomination numeral appear at upper and lower margins, with two signature lines at the lower centre. |
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| Obverse lettering | مؤسسة النقد العربي السعودي خمسون ريالاً ٥٠ |
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The Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency's Hajj Pilgrim Receipt series, of which this note forms a part, was originally conceived to prevent the export of Saudi riyals abroad by the millions of pilgrims arriving annually for the hajj. Foreign pilgrims were issued these receipts in exchange for their home currency, usable within the Kingdom but theoretically non-negotiable outside it. The policy was never fully enforced, and the notes circulated freely.
Thomas De La Rue produced the series across a remarkably long print run — fifteen years — which accounts for the considerable variation in serial number prefixes and signature combinations collectors encounter within P#19 alone.