100 Riyals 2006 Asian Games, Orry

Issued to mark the 15th Asian Games held in Doha — the first time the Games were hosted in the Middle East — this piece commemorates Orry, the Arabian oryx mascot designed for the event. Qatar invested heavily in infrastructure for the 2006 Games, including a purpose-built sports city, and the commemorative coin program was part of a broader effort to signal the country's arrival as a regional cultural and sporting hub. The oryx itself, once hunted to extinction in the wild, was reintroduced to Qatar through a captive breeding program at the Al Wabra Wildlife Preservation.