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1 Qirsh - Abd al-Azīz countermarked '65'
| Issuer | Saudi Arabia (1932-date) |
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| Year | 1946 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
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| Reverse script | Arabic |
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This piece belongs to a countermarking campaign carried out by Saudi Arabia in AH 1365 (1946), during which existing 1 Qirsh coins were stamped to officially extend their validity as circulating currency. The practice was a pragmatic response to coin shortages in the Hejaz region as the young kingdom worked to consolidate its monetary infrastructure. Abd al-Aziz ibn Saud had only formally unified the kingdom in 1932, and standardized coinage remained an ongoing administrative challenge through the 1940s.
The '65' countermark — abbreviated from AH 1365 — is the authenticating detail that elevates this from a worn circulation piece to a documentary artifact of that transitional period.