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100 Baisa
| Issuer | Central Bank of Oman |
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| Year | 2020 |
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| Size | 120 × 63 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | البنك المركزي العُماني هذه الورقة النقدية لها قيمة قانونية مقدارها مائة بيسة ١٤٤١هـ / ٢٠٢٠م |
| Reverse description | The central vignette presents an intaglio-rendered landscape of a traditional falaj irrigation channel flanked by dense date palms, with a stone settlement visible in the middle ground against a rocky hillside. The issuer legend CENTRAL BANK OF OMAN appears in dark red serif lettering at the upper left, with the numeral 100 at the upper right and the written value ONE HUNDRED BAISA at the lower right, all set over intricate geometric guilloche underprints in salmon, blue, and green. A khanjar and crossed-swords device is placed at the lower centre alongside a microprint band, with the date cartouche 1441H / 2020G at lower right. |
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The 100 Baisa occupies an unusual position in Omani currency — a fractional denomination kept in circulation long after most Gulf states quietly retired their low-value paper in favor of coins or simply let inflation render them irrelevant. Oman's retention of the 100 Baisa note into the 2020s reflects the rial's deliberately maintained strength, where a tenth of a rial still carries enough transactional weight to justify paper.
Cotton substrate and a security thread are modest specifications for a 2020 issue, suggesting this denomination receives minimal counterfeiting pressure in practice.