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 Rial
| Issuer | Yemen Currency Board |
|---|---|
| Year | 1964-1967 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| 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 | Bradbury Wilkinson and Company, United Kingdom (1856-1990) |
| 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 | Log in to see details |
|---|---|
| Obverse lettering | الجمهورية العربية اليمنية ريال واحد |
| Reverse description | A detailed architectural vignette occupies the centre and right of the note, illustrating the traditional multi-storey tower houses of the Old City of Sanaa with a minaret rising at centre. To the left, a large blank oval panel serves as the watermark window. A circular guilloche rosette is positioned at the far right, with the English denomination "ONE RIAL" printed within it. The overall design is executed in green on a light ground. |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Signature(s) | Log in to see details |
| Protection type | Log in to see details |
| Protection description | Log in to see details |
| Variants | Log in to see details |
| Comments |
The Yemen Currency Board was established in 1964 as part of the newly independent Yemen Arab Republic's first steps toward a sovereign monetary system, replacing the British-administered East African shilling that had circulated in Aden and the protectorates. This note is from that inaugural series — Pick 1 is as foundational as the catalog gets for Yemeni paper money.
Bradbury Wilkinson printed the series from their New Malden facility, a firm that handled currency contracts for dozens of newly independent states during the 1960s decolonization wave. The short issue window before the Currency Board was superseded by the Central Bank of Yemen in 1971 kept total print runs modest.