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1 Riyal
| Issuer | Qatar Central Bank |
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| Year | 2003 |
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| Value | 1 Riyal (1 QAR) |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette presents an ornate column with arched arcades, traditional dhow sailboats on water, and palm trees, flanked by crossed swords. The denomination numeral '1' appears three times in Arabic script within guilloche underprint panels. |
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| Reverse lettering | Qatar Central Bank One Riyal |
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Qatar Central Bank's 2003 series replaced the earlier Qatar Monetary Agency notes following the agency's formal conversion to a full central bank in 1993 — the delay of nearly a decade before a new series appeared reflects how gradually that institutional transition was completed in practice. Thomas De La Rue printed this series under what were by then fairly routine contract arrangements with Gulf state central banks, several of which were modernizing their currency infrastructure around the same period.
The watermark remains the sole listed security feature, which is notably sparse for a note issued well into an era when intaglio printing, security threads, and color-shifting inks were standard on comparable denominations regionally.