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20 Rials
| Issuer | Central Bank of Yemen |
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| Year | 2004 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse lettering | سقطرى شجرة الاخوين (Translation: Socotra Brothers Tree) |
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| Mintage | 1425 (2004) - ١٤٢٥ - ٢٠٠٤ |
| Additional information |
Yemen's bimetallic coinage program expanded in the early 2000s as the government sought more durable, harder-to-counterfeit denominations for everyday transactions — the rial had suffered significant inflationary pressure following the 1990 unification of the Yemen Arab Republic and the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen, a merger that required absorbing two separate currency systems into one.
The brass-on-steel construction was a cost-driven choice; solid brass blanks had become prohibitively expensive for high-volume circulation coinage across much of the developing world by this period.