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5 Rials
| Issuer | Central Bank of Oman |
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| Year | 2000 |
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| Currency | Rial (1972-date) |
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| Reverse description | Central Bank of Oman inscription at top center with the numeral 5 to the right; a city view of Nizwa occupies the left of center, with the Al Qala mosque in Nizwa rendered as the central vignette. |
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| Protection type | Watermark, Hologram |
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The 2000 series from the Central Bank of Oman represented a significant upgrade in security engineering for Omani currency, with holographic strips becoming a defining feature of the higher denominations at a point when Gulf states were actively hardening their notes against increasingly sophisticated counterfeiting operations in the region.
Thomas De La Rue has printed Omani rials continuously across multiple series — a relationship stretching back to the earliest Sultanate issues — making this one of the more stable printer-issuer arrangements in the modern Middle East.