Saudi Arabia, 2017
5Riyals
Five Saudi Riyals Polymer Banknote
- Country
- Saudi Arabia
- Issuer
- Saudi Central Bank
- Issue year
- 2017
- Type
- Horizontal note
- Material
- Polymer
- Size
- 145 × 66 mm
- Signature
- Ahmed Abdulkarim Alkholifey, paired with Finance Minister Mohammed Al-Jadaan
- Serial
- A 3 7 9 5 0 8 5 3 3
Currency Information
The story
The note is an update of the 5 riyal polymer note first issued in 2020, now with a new issuer name. The first version was the Kingdom’s first polymer banknote, printed on Guardian polymer by CCL Industries. SAMA described it as a step towards a new national currency. The front keeps the portrait of King Salman and the Shaybah oil field in the Empty Quarter. The back keeps the flower field and mountain scene from the earlier paper note.
Front
Portrait of King Salman bin Abdulaziz in a white ghutra with a black agal, Shaybah oil refinery in the Rub’ al Khali (Empty Quarter) with an Aramco logo on a storage tank, Arabic issuer name “Saudi Central Bank”, Arabic line about the King’s reign and royal decree, large star-shaped transparent window with the crossed swords and palm tree emblem, second lotus-style rosette below it, geometric Islamic patterns, small gold circle pattern, Hijri date, signatures of the Governor and the Minister of Finance with printed names
Back
Field of wild flowers (daisy-like blooms, pink flowers, purple flower spikes) in front of a mountain range, gold crossed swords with a green palm tree emblem, star-shaped transparent window showing the same emblem, geometric Arabic border patterns, text “Saudi Central Bank” in English, microtext line
