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250 Riyals WTO Doha
| Issuer | Qatar Central Bank |
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| Year | 2001 |
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| Value | 250 Riyals |
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| Obverse description | Central field bears the national emblem of Qatar, comprising two crossed curved swords with a traditional sailing vessel (dhow) depicted on stylised waves between them, flanked by an island with two palm trees. The denomination '٢٥٠ ريالاً' (250 Riyals) appears in Arabic numerals and script to either side of the central device. The legend 'دولة قطر' (State of Qatar) arcs above in Arabic, with 'STATE OF QATAR' inscribed below in Latin characters, framing the emblem within a beaded or plain border. |
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| Obverse script | Arabic, Latin |
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Qatar's accession to the World Trade Organization was already a done deal — the country joined in 1996 — but the Fourth WTO Ministerial Conference, held in Doha in November 2001, elevated Qatar's profile considerably on the global trade stage. The Doha Development Round launched at that conference became one of the most protracted and ultimately unsuccessful multilateral trade negotiations in WTO history, still formally unresolved decades later.
The Qatar Central Bank issued this piece to mark the hosting of that conference, a relatively rare commemorative output from a mint program that has never been prolific.