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500 Rials
| Issuer | Central Bank of Yemen |
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| Year | 2001 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Reverse description | Central intaglio vignette of Al-Muhdhar Mosque (Masjid al-Muhdhar) in Tarim, rendered in violet-blue, with its distinctive tall minaret rising prominently above the mosque complex and surrounding walls. The English legend 'CENTRAL BANK OF YEMEN' is inscribed at the top, with the denomination '500' and 'FIVE HUNDRED RIALS' at lower left and right. A holographic or optically variable diamond-shaped security element is visible at the right margin, and arabesque guilloche patterns fill the border areas. |
| Reverse lettering | CENTRAL BANK OF YEMEN FIVE HUNDRED RIALS 500 جامع الخضار |
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The Central Bank of Yemen issued this note during a period of relative monetary stability following the painful 1995–96 currency reforms, when the rial had lost roughly two-thirds of its value against the dollar in under five years. The 500 rial denomination was a practical response to that inflation — it had been reintroduced in higher-value form precisely because smaller denominations had been rendered inadequate for daily transactions.
Thomas De La Rue's involvement here is unremarkable for the region; they held printing contracts across the Arabian Peninsula throughout the 1990s and 2000s. The security thread specification for this series is a plain windowed type, not a more advanced demetallized variant.