The entity named on this coin — "Hejaz and Nejd and Dependencies" — was itself transitional, a political construction that lasted only until 1932, when Abd al-Aziz ibn Saud formally unified his territories and proclaimed the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. These qirsh pieces were struck at Bombay under British contract, a practical arrangement given that the Arabian peninsula had no mint infrastructure of its own. KM#15 represents the sole copper-nickel denomination of the series; the broader coinage reform it belonged to was partly driven by the need to displace the Ottoman and Hejazi issues still circulating after Ibn Saud's 1925 capture of Mecca.
The entity named on this coin — "Hejaz and Nejd and Dependencies" — was itself transitional, a political construction that lasted only until 1932, when Abd al-Aziz ibn Saud formally unified his territories and proclaimed the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. These qirsh pieces were struck at Bombay under British contract, a practical arrangement given that the Arabian peninsula had no mint infrastructure of its own. KM#15 represents the sole copper-nickel denomination of the series; the broader coinage reform it belonged to was partly driven by the need to displace the Ottoman and Hejazi issues still circulating after Ibn Saud's 1925 capture of Mecca.