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20 Buqshas
| Issuer | Yemen Arab Republic Currency Board |
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| Year | 1966 |
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| Currency | Rial (1918-1974) |
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| Reverse description | Central vignette of the ancient Bara'an Temple colonnade, its tall monolithic pillars rising against an open landscape, rendered in grey-green intaglio. The English inscription 'ARAB REPUBLIC OF YEMEN' runs along the top border, with 'TWENTY BUQSHAS' along the lower border; the numeral '20' appears at upper left, upper right, and lower centre. A blank rectangular panel occupies the left portion of the note. |
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| Protection description | State arms watermark |
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The Yemen Arab Republic was barely three years old when this note was printed. The Currency Board — rather than a full central bank — was the issuing authority by design: the new republic lacked the institutional infrastructure for a proper central bank and relied on transitional frameworks to establish basic monetary operations. Bradbury Wilkinson produced the series at their New Malden facility, a logical choice given the firm's long history supplying notes to newly independent states across the Middle East and Africa.
The buqsha subdivision, equal to one-fortieth of a riyal, disappeared from circulation well before unification in 1990. Low-denomination paper buqsha notes were never popular in trade and largely vanished through attrition.