1⁄40 Riyal - Ahmad Private issue

Features

Issuer	Mutawakkilite Kingdom (North Yemen)
Król	Ahmad bin Yahya (1948-1962)
Type	Standard circulation coins
Year	1367 (1956)
Calendar	Islamic (Hijri)
Value	1⁄40 Rial
Currency	Rial (1918-1974)
Composition	Aluminium
Weight	2.2 g
Diameter	27 mm
Shape	Okrągły
Technique	Frezowana
Issued	May 1956
Demonetized	Yes
Number	N# 11745
References	Y# 19 Richard Sperry Yeoman. R. S. Yeoman's Modern & Current World Coins (16 volumes). , Schön# 20 Battenberg Gietl Verlag (publisher). Weltmünzkatalog. Battenberg Gietl Verlag, Regenstauf, Bavaria, Germany (4 volumes).

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Obverse

Script: arabski

Reverse

Script: arabski

Edge

Zwykły Automatically translated

Mint

SOMP (Société Orientale des Métaux Précieux), Beirut, Lebanon (1950-date)

Comments

(en)

According to Krause "Struck privately in Lebanon in 1955-1956 and released into circulation in 1956"
According to Pridmore's The Modern Coins of the Mutawakkilite Kingdom of the Yemen: https://archive.org/details/seabyscoinmedalb1963base_l3a1/page/233
"The coins were ordered in 1955 from the Societé Orientale des Metaux Precioux, P.O. Box 1113, Beirut, Lebanon, and the first shipment reached Yemen, via Aden, early in 1956. Issue to the public took place in May 1956."

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Date					VG	F	VF	XF	AU	UNC
Undetermined
1367 (1956)					$ 1.20	$ 4.90	$ 8.60	$ 8.60	$ 10	$ 13		(en) ١٣٦٧

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