10 Rials Qadhi Azzubairi Memorial

Qadhi Muhammad Mahmoud al-Zubayri was a poet and politician who became one of the most prominent voices for Yemeni republican ideals before his assassination in April 1965 — shot dead near Arhab, almost certainly on orders connected to royalist factions during the civil war that had engulfed the country since 1962. This commemorative was struck four years after his death, at a moment when the Yemen Arab Republic was still fighting for its survival against Imamate loyalists backed by Saudi Arabia, and Egyptian troops were only just withdrawing.

The issue date of 1969 places production well after the political consolidation of Sana'a but before any real monetary stability had taken hold.