10 Fils - Isa Silver Proof

Bahrain's proof coinage of this period was struck under the Bahrain Monetary Agency, established in 1973 following independence from Britain and the collapse of the Gulf rupee system. The Agency issued these silver proofs largely for collector sets rather than circulation, a practice common among Gulf states during the 1970s and 1980s that generated hard currency revenue from numismatic markets abroad. KM#3a denotes the silver proof variant of a design that had circulated in base metal since the early 1970s.