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100 Riyals
| Issuer | Saudi Arabian Monetary Authority |
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| Year | 2016-2021 |
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| Currency | Riyal (1960-date) |
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| Obverse description | At center, a vignette of the Green Dome (constructed 1279 CE / 678 AH) rising above the tomb of the Prophet Muhammad and the early Caliphs Abu Bakr and Umar within Al-Masjid al-Nabawi in Medina, with Arabic inscriptions above identifying the Saudi Arabian Monetary Authority, the Royal Decree particulars, and the name of King Abdullah. To the right appears a portrait of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, King Salman Bin Abdulaziz Al Saud. At the lower center, the denomination in Arabic numerals is flanked by the signatures of the Minister of Finance and the Governor of the Saudi Arabian Monetary Authority. |
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| Protection type | Watermark, Security thread |
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The P#41 series was introduced as part of SAMA's broader effort to modernize the Saudi note family ahead of the Vision 2030 rollout, though the notes themselves retained the De La Rue cotton substrate rather than moving to polymer — a choice several Gulf neighbors had already made by this point. Thomas De La Rue has printed Saudi currency continuously since the Kingdom's first unified paper issues in the 1950s, making this one of the longer unbroken printing relationships in Middle Eastern note history.
Security features on this series are relatively modest for a high-denomination note of its period — watermark and thread without the optically variable elements that appeared on contemporaneous issues from comparable economies.