100 Baiza

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.