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1/2 Ahmadi Riyal / 2 1/2 Lira - Ahmad Gold, mint reads inward

Issuer Mutawakkilite Kingdom of Yemen
Year 1950-1958
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Weight 16 g
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Obverse lettering الله نصره ١٣٦٧ أحمد حميد الدين امير المؤمنين الناصر لدين الله رب العالمين ٢
(Translation: Allah (God) helped him 1367 Ahmad Hamid ed-Din Commander of the Faithful, he who supports God`s religion, the Lord of the Universe 2)
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Edge Plain
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The Mutawakkilite Kingdom's gold coinage was never intended for everyday commerce — these pieces functioned primarily as stores of value and prestige objects within a subsistence economy that remained almost entirely outside the formal monetary system. Imam Ahmad, who ruled from 1948 following his father Yahya's assassination, maintained Yemen's fierce isolationism through most of his reign, which kept foreign coin standards largely irrelevant and domestic production erratic.

The inward-reading mint inscription distinguishes this as Y#G16.1, separating it from the outward variant — a die orientation difference that likely reflects nothing more dramatic than workshop inconsistency at the San'a mint.

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