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200 Rials
| Issuer | Central Bank of Yemen |
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| Year | 1996 |
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| Currency | Rial (1990-date) |
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| Obverse description | At centre, an alabaster relief carving of a male figure from a funerary stela — held in the National Museum of Yemen in Sana'a and dated to the 1st century AD — is reproduced as the principal vignette; the figure is shown from head to waist, right hand raised in a gesture of salutation, left hand gripping a sword, with a dagger at his belt. The denomination numerals and Arabic legends of the Central Bank of Yemen are set within the surrounding border panels. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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| Comments |
The 200 Rials series from the unified Yemeni central bank came out of a politically turbulent stretch — unification of North and South Yemen had only occurred in 1990, and the 1994 civil war between the two former states was barely resolved by the time this note entered production. Thomas De La Rue's involvement as printer was effectively inherited from the Yemen Arab Republic's earlier banking arrangements; the southern YAR legacy dictated most of the early unified currency's technical contracting.
The "Printed: 30.04.1945" field in this catalog record is almost certainly a data entry error — De La Rue's Yemeni contracts postdate unification by decades.