1/4 Anna - Faisal with central circle

The Sultanate of Muscat and Oman maintained a chaotic monetary environment throughout the nineteenth century, relying heavily on imported Maria Theresa Thalers, Indian rupees, and a rotating cast of foreign copper for everyday transactions. Sultan Faisal bin Turki, who came to power in 1888, authorized this copper coinage partly to assert a degree of administrative independence from the dominant British Indian monetary orbit — though Indian currency continued to circulate freely alongside it. The KM#4.1 designation distinguishes this variety by the central circle, a detail that separates it from the plainer KM#4.2 struck concurrently.