1/2 Qirsh - Abd al-Azīz Mecca

Abd al-Aziz ibn Saud captured Mecca in October 1924 and Medina shortly after, effectively ending Hashimite rule over the Hejaz. This coin predates the formal consolidation of those territories into the dual kingdom — it was struck under the transitional authority of the Sultanate of Nejd and its Dependencies, before the Hejaz was fully absorbed and the combined entity proclaimed in 1926. The minting of a copper fractional at Mecca itself carried pointed political weight: coinage in the holy city had long been a prerogative of legitimate Islamic rulers.