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50 Riyals
| Issuer | Qatar Monetary Agency |
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| Year | 1976 |
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| Printer | Bradbury Wilkinson and Company, United Kingdom (1856-1990) |
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| Obverse lettering | مؤسسة النقد القطري خمسون ريالاً وتقدم صاحبه الصحة بموجب القانون وزير المالية |
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| Protection description | Falcon's head |
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The Qatar Monetary Agency was itself a transitional institution — established in 1973 after Qatar withdrew from the Currency Board arrangement it had shared with Dubai, and replaced in 1993 by the Qatar Central Bank. This note falls squarely in the middle of that interregnum period, when Qatar was still building the legal and institutional framework around oil revenues that were, by 1976, already transforming the peninsula at speed.
Bradbury Wilkinson had printed security documents for Gulf states going back decades by this point, and their New Malden facility handled the full production run. The watermark is the sole security thread on P#4 — no metal strip, no UV features — which reflects the period norm for the region rather than any particular cost decision.