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1 Qirsh - Abd al-Azīz Hejaz and Nejd and Dependencies
| Issuer | Mecca Mint |
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| Year | 1928 |
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| Value | 1 Qirsh (1⁄22) |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
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| Reverse lettering | قرش واحد ١ ١٣٤٦ (Translation: One Qirsh 1 1346) |
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The "Hejaz and Nejd and Dependencies" title places this coin at a specific and brief administrative moment — after Ibn Saud's forces took the Hejaz from the Hashemites in 1925 but before the formal proclamation of Saudi Arabia in 1932. The Mecca Mint itself operated only a few years under this arrangement, making its output limited by any standard. Copper-nickel issues like this one were intended to address a chronic shortage of small change that had plagued the region since the Ottoman collapse.