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1/2 Rial - Qaboos Sohar Fort
| Issuer | Central Bank of Oman |
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| Year | 1974 |
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| Value | 1/2 Rial |
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| Obverse description | Right-facing draped bust of Sultan Qaboos bin Said, wearing a traditional Omani turban, set within a circular field. A continuous Arabic legend arcs around the upper periphery reading his full royal title, with the lower legend completing the inscription 'Sultan of Oman'. The portrait is rendered in high relief with fine detail on the headdress and collar. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Issued as part of Oman's first commemorative silver series under Sultan Qaboos, who had deposed his father Said bin Taimur in a bloodless palace coup just four years earlier in 1970. The new government moved quickly to modernize the country's institutions, and the Central Bank of Oman itself had only been established in 1974 — making this coin among the earliest issues struck under its authority.
Sohar's significance here is deliberate: the port city is traditionally identified as the birthplace of Sindbad the Sailor and was medieval Arabia's most important commercial harbor, a pointed reference to Oman's maritime heritage at a moment when the new regime was constructing a national identity from scratch.