1/4 Anna - Faisal

Descrizione del dritto	Central field features the Arabic inscription 'مسقط' (Muscat) above the AH date ١٣١٥ (1315), with the denomination '1/4 ANNA' inscribed in Latin letters in the lower exergue. A circular outer legend in Latin reads 'OF MUSCAT AND OMAN FESSUL BEN TURKEE' running around the periphery of the coin. The overall design is plain and typographic in character, with no effigy or figurative devices.
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Bordo	Plain
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Informazioni aggiuntive	Muscat and Oman in the 1890s occupied an unusual political position — nominally independent under Sultan Faisal bin Turki, but operating under heavy British commercial and diplomatic pressure following the 1891 treaty that effectively ceded Omani foreign policy to London. Coinage was struck in Birmingham by Ralph Heaton & Sons, a private contract mint that supplied many Gulf and Indian Ocean states whose own minting infrastructure was nonexistent. KM#12 is one of the scarcer Anna-denomination bronzes from this sultanate, with surviving examples frequently showing heavy environmental damage from the coastal humidity of the Gulf region.