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1 Rial - Qaboos 19th Arabian Gulf Cup
| Issuer | Central Bank of Oman |
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| Year | 2008 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Reverse description | The official coloured logo of the 19th Arabian Gulf Cup dominates the field, featuring the numeral '19' in green at the left, incorporating a polychrome football rendered in red and white at the upper right of the digit. To the right of the numeral, the Arabic word 'مسقط' (Muscat) appears in red, identifying the host city. Below, in the central field, two lines of text read 'دورة كأس الخليج العربي' in Arabic and 'arabian gulf cup' in Latin script, both in grey tones against the polished silver field. |
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| Mintage | 2008: ND (2008) |
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The 19th Arabian Gulf Cup was hosted by Oman in January 2009, making this a pre-tournament commemorative struck in the preceding year. Gulf Cup tournaments carry political weight well beyond sport — the 1976 inaugural edition was partly conceived as a tool for regional cohesion among states that had only recently formalized their borders with one another.
KM#166 follows the broadly adopted 28.28g .925 silver format that became a de facto standard for Commonwealth and Gulf state commemoratives from the 1970s onward, largely through the influence of the Royal Mint's contract striking program.