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1/2 Dinar
| Issuer | Bahrain Monetary Agency |
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| Year | 1993 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Reverse lettering | BAHRAIN MONETARY AGENCY HALF DINAR |
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| Protection type | Watermark, Security thread |
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| Comments |
The Bahrain Monetary Agency replaced the Bahrain Currency Board in 1973, and this series — issued two decades later — reflects the agency's mature period of note design, produced by Thomas De La Rue under what had become a long-standing contractual relationship with Gulf states. The half-dinar denomination served genuine transactional demand in a country where that fraction of the dinar remained meaningful in everyday commerce, unlike in some neighboring economies where low denominations had been effectively rendered obsolete by inflation.
The "Printed: 30.04.1945" date in the source data is almost certainly a cataloging error — a placeholder or data entry anomaly that predates Bahrain's modern monetary institutions by decades.