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1/2 Qirsh - Husayn
| Issuer | Hejaz, Kingdom of |
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| Year | 1916 |
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| Currency | Riyal (1916-1925) |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
| Obverse lettering | الحسين بن علي ملك الحجاز |
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Husayn bin Ali proclaimed the Arab Revolt against Ottoman rule in June 1916, and this bronze issue was among the first coinage struck under his authority as King of Hejaz — a title the Sharif had awarded himself weeks after raising the revolt. The pieces were minted in Cairo under British facilitation, Britain having every strategic reason to support a functioning Hashemite administration in the Hijaz as Ottoman power in the region collapsed.
The kingdom itself lasted barely a decade before Ibn Saud's Wahhabi forces swept through and absorbed Hejaz into what became Saudi Arabia in 1925.