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20 Rials
| Issuer | Central Bank of Yemen |
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| Year | 1973 |
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| Printer | Bradbury Wilkinson and Company, United Kingdom (1856-1990) |
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| Reverse description | The central vignette presents a panoramic intaglio landscape of Yemeni terraced agricultural slopes sweeping across the lower right, with dramatic clifftop settlements carved into rocky escarpments at centre. The denomination numeral 20 appears at left and lower right within the finely engraved border, and the legend CENTRAL BANK OF YEMEN is set in letterpress at the top, with TWENTY RIALS along the lower margin on a solid purple ground. |
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| Protection description | Arms watermark |
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The Yemen Arab Republic's early banknotes were issued under considerable institutional pressure — the Central Bank of Yemen had only been established in 1971, replacing the Saudi Riyal-linked currency system that had prevailed through much of the imamate period. Bradbury Wilkinson, then still operating from New Malden, handled a significant share of British Commonwealth and Middle Eastern currency contracts in this period, and the Yemen series fell squarely within that commercial relationship.
Pick 14 is the first 20 Rial denomination issued by the republic's central bank, a denomination that would be reissued through several subsequent series as the country's economy expanded through the oil-transit years of the 1970s.