Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
1/2 Dinar
| Issuer | Central Bank of Bahrain |
|---|---|
| Year | 2006 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | 1/2 Dinar |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Size | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Printer | Log in to see details |
| Designer(s) | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | The obverse bears a vignette of the Old Court building in Manama at centre, set against an intricate guilloche underprint in warm orange and amber tones. Tactile marks for the visually impaired are present at the upper right. The denomination numeral '1/2' appears at left, with Arabic and English inscriptions of the issuing authority across the upper field. |
|---|---|
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Signature(s) | Log in to see details |
| Protection type | Log in to see details |
| Protection description | Watermark portrait of His Majesty King Hamad Bin Isa Al Khalifa, King of Bahrain; vertical security thread embedded in the paper, bearing 'CBB' microtext repeated at intervals. |
| Variants | Log in to see details |
| Comments |
The 2006 Bahraini half-dinar belongs to the series introduced after Bahrain's formal transition from the Bahrain Monetary Agency to the Central Bank of Bahrain, established by Law No. 64 of 2006. The institutional change was largely administrative — the monetary policy framework remained continuous — but the new notes were required to reflect the renamed authority, making this issue the first under the Central Bank name rather than a routine reprint.
Thomas De La Rue's involvement with Bahraini currency printing stretches back decades, and the security specification here — watermark and thread only — places this at the modest end of the series' protection hierarchy, typical for the lowest-denomination note in the range.