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1/10 Rial
| Issuer | Yemen Arab Republic |
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| Year | 1962-1963 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Edge | Plain and reeded varieties exist |
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| Mintage | 1382 (1962) - Y#24.2 Thin variety, 1.40-1.80 grams - 1382 (1963) - Y#24.1 Thick variety, 2.40-3.00 grams - |
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The Yemen Arab Republic came into existence through a September 1962 coup that overthrew Imam Muhammad al-Badr just days after he assumed the imamate. Egyptian-backed republican forces almost immediately clashed with Saudi-supported royalists in a civil war that would grind on until 1970. These silver fractions were struck in that opening window — a new state issuing coinage while its own survival remained genuinely uncertain.
The .720 fineness matches the silver standard inherited from the Mutawakkilite Kingdom, a deliberate continuity signal from a government otherwise bent on rupture with the old order.