10 Dirhams

The UAE's commemorative dirham program has issued dozens of silver pieces since the 1970s, most tied to specific government anniversaries, infrastructure milestones, or GCC summits held in the Emirates. Without confirmed attribution to a particular event, what can be said is that 2008 placed this issue squarely in the final months before the global financial crisis gutted Dubai's property market — an irony not lost on collectors of Gulf silver from this period.