1 Rial - Qaboos Population Census, Silver

Oman conducted its first comprehensive population census in 1993, but the 2003 census — commemorated here — was the more ambitious undertaking, covering all governorates including the newly integrated interior regions that had been effectively inaccessible to government enumeration during the Dhofar Rebellion decades earlier. The silver commemorative program run by the Central Bank during this period was modest in scope, with individual issues typically seeing limited distribution outside gift sets sold through Omani banks.