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1 Qirsh - Husayn
| Issuer | Hejaz, Kingdom of |
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| Year | 1916 |
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| Value | 1 Piastre (Qirsh) (1/20) |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
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| Mintage | 1334 (1916) 5 - ٥ / ١٣٣٤ - 1334 (1916) 6/5 - ٦/٥ / ١٣٣٤ (6 over 5) - |
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Husayn bin Ali proclaimed the Arab Revolt against Ottoman rule in June 1916, and these bronze qirsh pieces were among the first coins struck under his authority as newly declared King of the Hejaz. The Sharif of Mecca had coordinated closely with British intelligence — T.E. Lawrence among them — before the uprising, and the minting of a distinct Hejazi coinage was a deliberate assertion of independence from Istanbul's monetary system.
The kingdom itself lasted barely a decade before Ibn Saud's Wahhabi forces overran Mecca in 1924 and absorbed the Hejaz into what would become Saudi Arabia.