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1⁄80 Rial
| Issuer | Yemen Arab Republic |
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| Year | 1963 |
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| Value | 1⁄80 Rial |
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| Reverse description | Central field bears the Arabic denomination inscription enclosed within a raised circular border, indicating the value as one-eightieth of a Rial. The surrounding legend contains the Islamic shahada and the mint attribution to Sana'a, arranged in Arabic script filling the entire field. The Hijri year 1382 appears in the lower portion below the central circle. Small decorative star-like elements appear as separators within the outer legend. |
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| Mintage | 1382 (1963) |
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The Yemen Arab Republic came into existence in September 1962 following a military coup that deposed the Mutawakkilite Kingdom, and this 1963 issue belongs to the frantic first coinage of the new republican government — struck while royalist forces, backed by Saudi Arabia, were already fighting to reverse the revolution. The fractional rial denominations were a direct inheritance from the Imamate monetary system, retained simply because the population knew them.