1 Rial Omani

The Oman Currency Board was a short-lived institution, established in 1972 and replaced by the Central Bank of Oman in 1974 — which means the entire Currency Board series, including this note, had an active lifespan of roughly two years. Bradbury Wilkinson printed the series from their New Malden facility, a reliable workhorse of Commonwealth and Gulf state currency production throughout the postwar decades.

Oman had only formally changed its name from the Sultanate of Muscat and Oman in 1970, the same year Qaboos bin Said deposed his father. The Rial Omani replaced the Gulf Rupee system as part of that broader modernization push. P#10 is among the earliest notes to carry the new national identity in its issuing authority text.