The Qatar Monetary Agency was itself a transitional institution — created in 1973 after Qatar and Dubai's joint currency arrangement collapsed, it issued banknotes under its own authority until the Qatar Central Bank was established in 1993. This P#11 series belongs entirely to that intermediate period, produced by De La Rue across nearly a decade without a change in date printing, which makes precise dating within the 1980–1989 window difficult from the note alone.
De La Rue's intaglio work on Qatar's higher denominations during this period is notably fine, though the security specification here is minimal — watermark only, with no security thread.
The Qatar Monetary Agency was itself a transitional institution — created in 1973 after Qatar and Dubai's joint currency arrangement collapsed, it issued banknotes under its own authority until the Qatar Central Bank was established in 1993. This P#11 series belongs entirely to that intermediate period, produced by De La Rue across nearly a decade without a change in date printing, which makes precise dating within the 1980–1989 window difficult from the note alone.
De La Rue's intaglio work on Qatar's higher denominations during this period is notably fine, though the security specification here is minimal — watermark only, with no security thread.