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20 Rials
| Issuer | Central Bank of Yemen |
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| Year | 1990 |
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| Currency | Rial (decimalized, 1974-1990) |
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| Reverse description | Central intaglio vignette of the clifftop cityscape of Mukalla on the Hadhrami coast, traditional multi-storey tower houses rising above rocky bluffs against a fine guilloche underprint. The denomination numeral '20' appears at upper left and lower right within the geometric border frame, with the English denomination legend across the lower panel. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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The 1990 date places this note at an awkward political moment: the merger of the Yemen Arab Republic and the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen occurred in May of that year, and the unified Republic of Yemen required rapid consolidation of two separate monetary systems. Thomas De La Rue printed both pre-unification Yemeni notes and several early unified issues, providing a thread of continuity across the transition.
A print run just over twelve million is modest for a denomination in active circulation, and attrition has been predictable.