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50 Dirhams
| Issuer | United Arab Emirates Currency Board |
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| Year | 1973 |
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| Size | 160 x 80 mm |
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| Reverse description | Central vignette shows a multi-storey colonial-style palace building with an adjoining round watchtower, set amid trees and identified as the Sheikh's palace at Ajman. A falcon vignette occupies the left field within a circular frame, while the names of all seven emirates are inscribed in a band along the upper border on each side. The English legends 'UNITED ARAB EMIRATES CURRENCY BOARD' and 'FIFTY DIRHAMS' appear at top and bottom centre respectively, with the numeral '50' at each upper corner. |
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| Protection description | Arabian horse head |
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The UAE Currency Board was established in 1973 following the country's adoption of the UAE Dirham to replace the Bahraini Dinar and the Qatar and Dubai Riyal, which had served as parallel currencies across the Emirates since the early 1960s. This note belongs to the first and only series the Currency Board ever issued — the institution was dissolved in 1980 when the Central Bank of the UAE took over monetary functions, making the entire 1973 series short-lived by design.
Thomas De La Rue printed all denominations in this series, a standard arrangement for newly independent Gulf states at the time. The 50 Dirham was the highest denomination in the original issue, the 100 Dirham not appearing until the Central Bank series.