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5 Dinars
| Issuer | Central Bank of Kuwait |
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| Year | 2014 |
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| Currency | Dinar (1960-1990 and 1991-date) |
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| Obverse description | The Central Bank of Kuwait headquarters building rendered in intaglio occupies the central vignette against a lilac and blue guilloche underprint, with a traditional Kuwaiti dhow sailing vessel to the right. The state arms of Kuwait appear in the upper right quadrant, accompanied by two signature fields with Arabic titles to their right. The denomination "خمسة دنانير" (Five Dinars) is inscribed in Arabic along the lower centre, with the numeral "5" at far right, and a colour-shifting security element in the lower right corner. |
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| Reverse description | An oil tanker vignette occupies the central portion of the note against a fine guilloche underprint in lilac and pink tones, with a petroleum refinery rendered in intaglio to the right. The English inscription "CENTRAL BANK OF KUWAIT" appears at the top centre, and the denomination "FIVE Dinars" is lettered in script at the lower right alongside the large numeral "5". The left side carries a colour-shifting ornamental device mirroring that of the obverse. |
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Kuwait's seventh banknote series, introduced progressively from 2014, was the first issued after the Central Bank quietly discontinued the earlier 1994 series still in circulation. Thomas De La Rue has held the Kuwait printing contract through multiple series, and the relationship shows in the technical execution — the colour-shifting ink on this denomination shifts between two distinct hues at a steeper angle than many comparable Gulf issues, a refinement that became a quiet benchmark for regional anti-counterfeiting standards at the time.
Pick 32 sits in a series that notably dropped the bilingual Arabic-English denomination text arrangement used on earlier issues in favor of a revised layout — a small but deliberate change tied to updated Central Bank branding guidelines.