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50 Riyals
| Issuer | Qatar Central Bank |
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| Year | 2020 |
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| Currency | Riyal (1973-date) |
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| Obverse lettering | مصرف قطر المركزي خمسون ريالاً بموجب أحكام القانون رقم (13) لسنة 2012 تُعدّ هذه الأوراق النقدية عملة قانونية محافظ البنك وزير المالية 50 |
| Reverse description | The reverse is rendered in muted shades of mauve and grey, centred on a vignette of the Qatar Central Bank headquarters building — a large modernist structure rendered with architectural precision. The English inscription 'Qatar Central Bank' runs along the upper margin in a serif script, while 'Fifty Riyals' appears in stylised English lettering at lower centre. The date '2020' is printed at lower left, and the numeral '50' appears in large format at upper right and lower left corners, set against a background of delicate guilloche rosettes and Islamic geometric patterning. |
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Qatar's 2020 banknote series was a comprehensive redesign — the first major overhaul of the Qatar Central Bank's notes in roughly a decade. The 50 Riyal denomination sits in the upper-middle range of the series, which runs from 1 to 500 Riyals, and the 2020 issue brought standardized security architecture across all values, including the embedded security thread and MOTION security stripe technology licensed from De La Rue, which produces an animated rolling-bar effect under normal light.
Qatar's currency has been pegged to the US dollar at a fixed rate of 3.64 Riyals since 1980, a policy that has survived considerable regional turbulence — including the 2017–2021 blockade by Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain, and Egypt, during which the Riyal held its peg without devaluation.