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500 Rials Sponsor of the Disabled, Piedfort
| Issuer | Central Bank of Yemen |
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| Year | 1981 |
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| Value | 500 Rials (500 YER) |
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| Reverse script | Arabic, Latin |
| Reverse lettering | • SPONSOR OF THE DISABLED • ٥٠٠ ريال |
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Yemen's 1981 piedfort issues were produced for the international collector market, a common revenue strategy among smaller states in the late Cold War period. The "Sponsor of the Disabled" theme references a specific domestic welfare initiative promoted under President Ali Abdullah Saleh, who had consolidated power just two years earlier following the 1978 assassination of his predecessor Ahmad al-Ghashmi.
Piedforts at roughly double standard planchet thickness were struck in limited numbers and sold at significant premium. Few entered circulation in any meaningful sense.