{"id":48847,"date":"2026-01-26T17:33:59","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T01:33:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/?p=48847"},"modified":"2026-02-26T10:17:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T18:17:15","slug":"oman-new-signature-title-100-baisa-note-b238b-confirmed-duplicate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/?p=48847","title":{"rendered":"Oman new 1-rial commemorative note (B245a) confirmed introduced 11.01.2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cbo.gov.om\/news\/710\">This 1-rial commemorative note, the first polymer note issued by Oman<\/a>, circulates in parallel with the preceding issues. Furthermore, 1,000 uncut sheets and 10,000 banknotes in elegantly designed envelopes are available for sale at the Central Bank of Oman (Ruwi-Salalah-Sohar) and Oman Post\u2019s sales window at the Opera Galleria, starting from 11 January 2026.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1700\" height=\"891\" src=\"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Oman_CBO_1_rial_2025.00.00_B245a_PNL_AY-1_6354762_f.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-49459\" srcset=\"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Oman_CBO_1_rial_2025.00.00_B245a_PNL_AY-1_6354762_f.jpg 1700w, https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Oman_CBO_1_rial_2025.00.00_B245a_PNL_AY-1_6354762_f-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Oman_CBO_1_rial_2025.00.00_B245a_PNL_AY-1_6354762_f-768x403.jpg 768w, https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Oman_CBO_1_rial_2025.00.00_B245a_PNL_AY-1_6354762_f-1536x805.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Oman_CBO_1_rial_2025.00.00_B245a_PNL_AY-1_6354762_f-465x244.jpg 465w, https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Oman_CBO_1_rial_2025.00.00_B245a_PNL_AY-1_6354762_f-695x364.jpg 695w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1700px) 100vw, 1700px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1708\" height=\"888\" src=\"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Oman_CBO_1_rial_2025.00.00_B245a_PNL_AY-1_6354762_r.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-49460\" srcset=\"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Oman_CBO_1_rial_2025.00.00_B245a_PNL_AY-1_6354762_r.jpg 1708w, https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Oman_CBO_1_rial_2025.00.00_B245a_PNL_AY-1_6354762_r-300x156.jpg 300w, https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Oman_CBO_1_rial_2025.00.00_B245a_PNL_AY-1_6354762_r-768x399.jpg 768w, https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Oman_CBO_1_rial_2025.00.00_B245a_PNL_AY-1_6354762_r-1536x799.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Oman_CBO_1_rial_2025.00.00_B245a_PNL_AY-1_6354762_r-465x242.jpg 465w, https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Oman_CBO_1_rial_2025.00.00_B245a_PNL_AY-1_6354762_r-695x361.jpg 695w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1708px) 100vw, 1708px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>B245 <\/strong>(PNL): <strong>1 rial<\/strong> (US$2.60)<br>Brown, green, and purple. Front: Arabic text; frankincense tree; frankincense tree in OVI; arched windows of the Oman Botanic Garden; Sultan Haitham bin Tariq. Back: English text; Duqm Port; Duqm Refinery; Sayyid Tarik bin Taimour Cultural Complex; arched windows of the Oman Botanic Garden; coat of arms with crossed swords and khanjar (dagger). No security thread. Watermark (shadow image): Unknown. Printer: (Giesecke+Devrient). 145 x 76 mm. Polymer (Guardian).<br>a. \u202e\u0662\u0660\u0662\u0665\u202c\/2025. Sig. 4b: bin Assad. Intro: 11.01.2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Courtesy of Charles Toussaint and Claudio Marana.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This 1-rial commemorative note, the first polymer note issued by Oman, circulates in parallel with the preceding issues. Furthermore, 1,000 uncut sheets and 10,000 banknotes in elegantly designed envelopes are available for sale at the Central Bank of Oman (Ruwi-Salalah-Sohar) and Oman Post\u2019s sales window at the Opera Galleria, starting<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/?p=48847\">Read More\u2026<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49113,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,5,337,8],"tags":[96],"class_list":["entry","author-owenink","post-48847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-commemorative","category-middle-east","category-new-note","category-polymer","tag-oman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48847"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49461,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48847\/revisions\/49461"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/49113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}