1 Qirsh - Abd al-Azīz Hejaz and Nejd and Dependencies

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.