1/2 Qirsh - Husayn

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.