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1 Rial
| Issuer | Central Bank of Yemen |
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| Year | 1973-1976 |
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| Currency | Rial (1918-1974) |
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| Reverse description | The central vignette presents an intaglio landscape of coffee plants in the foreground, with a range of mountains rendered in fine engraving rising behind them, all executed in green on a light ground. Decorative arabesque borders frame the design on all four sides, with the numeral «1» in cartouches at left and right. The English bank title CENTRAL BANK OF YEMEN is lettered across the top margin, and the denomination ONE RIAL appears along the lower border. |
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| Protection description | Numeral «1» in the unprinted field to the left of centre on the obverse. |
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Bradbury Wilkinson printed this series during a period when the Yemen Arab Republic was still consolidating institutions following decades of imamate rule and the civil war that consumed the 1960s. The Central Bank itself had only been established in 1971, making this among the earliest standardized currency issues it commissioned. BW's New Malden facility handled a significant share of Middle Eastern government contracts in this period, and the workmanship is characteristically precise.
The P-16B reference in the catalog note flags a meaningful distinction: later printings show a clearer underprint on the face, which collectors have used to separate emission runs. P-11 examples without that refined underprint are the earlier state.