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1/4 Anna - Faisal
| Issuer | Sultanate of Muscat and Oman |
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| Year | 1896 |
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| Currency | Indian rupee (1891-1959) |
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| Obverse description | Central field features the Arabic date ١٣١٣ (AH 1313) above the denomination '1/4 ANNA', all enclosed within a raised inner circle. The circular English legend 'FESSUL BIN TURKEE IMAM OF MUSCAT AND OMAN' surrounds the central device along the outer rim. The lettering is rendered in a combination of Latin and Arabic scripts, with the design presenting a distinctly utilitarian colonial-era style typical of Gulf state coinage of the late nineteenth century. |
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| Reverse script | Arabic |
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The Sultanate of Muscat and Oman issued copper fractions in the 1890s partly to address the chronic shortage of small-denomination coinage circulating in Gulf trading ports, where Maria Theresa thalers dominated larger transactions but left everyday commerce poorly served. Faisal bin Turki, who ruled from 1888 to 1913, navigated considerable British pressure over the slave trade and arms trafficking during this period — the coinage itself an assertion of administrative order under a reign perpetually shadowed by treaty obligations to London.
The Cordry SC#28 reference places this among the scarcest catalogued issues of the sultanate's copper series.