1 Qirsh - Abd al-Azīz countermarked '65'

In 1365 AH (1946), Saudi Arabia countermarked existing 1 Qirsh coins with the numeral '65' to distinguish them from underweight or debased pieces then circulating — a low-cost administrative measure to extend the life of coinage already in the money supply without a full reminting operation. The countermark itself was applied unevenly across the run, and specimens with a sharp, well-centered punch are meaningfully scarcer than the type suggests.