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100 Baiza
| Issuer | Oman Currency Board |
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| Year | 1973 |
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| Value | 100 Baisa |
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| Obverse description | Brown and blue-green note with an intricate guilloche underprint; the national arms of Oman — crossed khanjar and swords — appear as a vignette at right, while Arabic inscriptions identifying the Oman Currency Board and the denomination (مائة بيسة) are arranged centrally. A decorative geometric border frames the entire face, with the serial number printed twice in brown ink. |
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| Reverse lettering | 100 BAIZA OMAN CURRENCY BOARD |
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The Oman Currency Board was a transitional institution, established after Sultan Qaboos overthrew his father Said bin Taimur in 1970 and began modernizing a country that had, until then, operated with the Maria Theresa Thaler and the Gulf Rupee as its primary transactional currencies. This 1973 series — printed by Bradbury Wilkinson at their New Malden works — was part of the first fully sovereign Omani currency system, using the newly created Rial Saidi subdivided into 1,000 Baiza.
The Board itself was short-lived. The Central Bank of Oman replaced it in 1974, making this series among the earliest and briefest chapters in modern Omani monetary history.