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1 Gunayh - Abd al-Azīz Gold Pattern
| Issuer | Saudi Arabia (1932-date) |
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| Year | 1951 |
| Type | Coin pattern |
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| Obverse lettering | ملك المملكة العربية السعودية عبد العزيز بن عبد الرحمن بن فيصل آل سعود (Translation: King of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia `Abd al-`Aziz bin `Abd al-Rahman bin Faisal Al Sa`ud) |
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| Mint | Mecca Mint |
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Abd al-Aziz ibn Saud unified the kingdom by conquest and diplomacy over three decades, but establishing a coherent national coinage proved its own protracted struggle. This 1951 pattern was part of an ongoing effort to develop a gold currency infrastructure for the newly consolidated kingdom — one that ultimately never materialized into regular circulation gold issues. The Saudi monetary system of the period leaned heavily on foreign gold coins and silver riyals, and domestic gold coinage remained perpetually deferred.
KM#Pn6 is one of a small cluster of gold patterns from this period, all produced in extremely limited numbers for approval purposes.