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10 Dinars
| Issuer | Bahrain Monetary Agency |
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| Year | 1998 |
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| Size | 142 × 71 mm |
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| Reverse lettering | BAHRAIN MONETARY AGENCY TEN DINARS 10 |
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| Protection description | Holographic foil strip in the lower left corner of the obverse; embedded security thread running vertically through the note; watermark visible when held to light. |
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The Bahrain Monetary Agency's 1998 series was among the first Gulf issues to incorporate a holographic stripe as a primary security feature rather than a supplementary one — a response to increasingly sophisticated counterfeiting of high-denomination notes in the region during the mid-1990s. Thomas De La Rue had been Bahrain's printer of choice since the BMA's earliest issues in the 1970s, and this note continues that unbroken relationship.
Pick 21 is the 10 Dinar denomination of the third series, sometimes called the "State of Bahrain" series to distinguish it from the later Central Bank issues that followed the BMA's dissolution in 2006.