1/4 Anna - Taimur KM#3 Countermarked

Countermarked Indian quarter annas circulated widely in the Gulf because Muscat and Oman lacked a consistent domestic mint supply in the early twentieth century. Rather than strike new coinage, the sultanate applied official countermarks to existing British Indian copper to legitimize it for local use — a stopgap arrangement that persisted across multiple reigns. The C#19.1 attribution places this piece within a countermark series catalogued by Krause under the reign of Taimur bin Faisal, who took power in 1913 following his father's abdication.