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50 Riyals
| Issuer | Qatar Central Bank |
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| Year | 2020-2022 |
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| Printer | Thomas De La Rue & Company, London, United Kingdom |
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| Reverse description | The reverse carries intaglio vignettes of two modernist architectural landmarks — the Qatar Central Bank building at left and the Ministry of Finance building at centre — rendered in fine line engraving against a rose and maroon guilloche underprint. To the right, an octagonal latticework medallion in the Islamic geometric tradition serves as a secondary design motif, accompanied by a large denomination numeral '50' in the upper and lower registers. The inscriptions 'Qatar Central Bank' in cursive script and 'Fifty Riyals' appear above and below the architectural vignettes respectively, with the year '2020' in the lower left. |
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| Protection type | Watermark, Security thread |
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| Comments |
Qatar's shift to hybrid substrate for this series was a deliberate modernization push, moving away from the cotton-linen paper stock that had defined Qatari notes for decades. De La Rue's hybrid product — polymer-coated cotton blend — offers improved durability in the Gulf's punishing climate without the full transition to polymer that some Gulf states had already made.
The TBB#222 reference places this firmly in the transitional 2020–2022 window, a period when Qatar was simultaneously managing the FIFA World Cup 2022 infrastructure spending and the final stages of the Saudi-led blockade's economic fallout — both of which influenced currency demand projections.