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Bahrain: No.16 Twenty dinars
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First issued — March 1993.
Size — 143 mm x 71.5 mm.
Signature — Sheikh Khalifah bin Sulman al Khalifah.
Watermark — The head of an oryx.
Security thread — Narrow windowed thread.
Printer — Thomas de la Rue and Company.
Illustration — The Bab al Bahrain in Manama. At the end of the Customs Pier in Manama is a small square, originally called Customs Square and now Shaikh Sulman Square. On the side of the square opposite the Customs Pier is the ‘Bab al Bahrain’—the ‘Gate of Bahrain’. The ‘Gate’ was designed by Sir Charles Belgrave and built in 1945. Consisting of two buildings joined by an arch, the complex originally housed several Government departments, including Customs and Immigration, but nowadays it is the headquarters for the Directorate of Tourism and Archaeology. For those who originally arrived in Bahrain by sea, this was the first building to be seen after leaving the Customs Pier.
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Illustration — The Ahmad al Fateh Islamic Centre. The Centre was built between 1983 and 1988 to commemorate the two hundredth anniversary of the rule of Bahrain by the al Khalifah dynasty. It is the largest building in Bahrain and the mosque can hold 7,000 people.