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5 Dirhams
| Issuer | United Arab Emirates Currency Board |
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| Year | 1973 |
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| Size | 145 x 63 mm |
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| Obverse description | Purple on multicolour underprint. The central vignette at left presents a composite scene uniting a traditional dhow under sail, a camel caravan, a palm tree, and an oil derrick, collectively evoking the emirate's maritime, desert, agricultural, and petroleum heritage. Denomination numerals and issuer inscriptions are rendered in both Arabic and English. |
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| Reverse lettering | UNITED ARAB EMIRATES CURRENCY BOARD FIVE DIRHAMS |
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The UAE Currency Board was a transitional authority, established after the union of the seven emirates in 1971 but before the UAE Central Bank existed — that institution wouldn't come into being until 1980. Thomas De La Rue printed the entire 1973 series, which represented the country's first unified currency, replacing the Qatar and Dubai riyal that had served the trucial states in the interim.
P#2 is among the scarcer denominations from this inaugural issue. The Currency Board's short operational window means the series was neither reprinted nor updated, giving the 1973 notes a fixed, finite population.