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100 Riyals - Ahmad II Arabian Gazelle
| Issuer | Umm Al Qaiwain |
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| Year | 1970 |
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| Orientation | Coin alignment ↑↓ |
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| Obverse description | Central shield bearing crossed flags, the whole encircled by a wreath of laurel branches. The legend STATE OF UMULQAIWAIN in Latin and حكومة ام القيوين in Arabic appears around the periphery. The Gregorian date 1970 and the Hijri date ١٣٨٩ are inscribed below the shield, flanking the denomination 100 ريال / 100 U.A.Q. RIYALS, with the fineness mark [900] also present. A beaded border frames the design. |
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| Obverse script | Arabic, Latin |
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Umm Al Qaiwain is the least populous of the UAE's seven emirates, and in 1970 it was still a British protectorate — formal independence wouldn't come until December 1971. The gold issues released that year under Ruler Ahmad bin Rashid Al Mu'alla were not struck for circulation. They were produced explicitly for the collector and investor market, a pattern common to several of the Trucial States in the final months before federation, when each entity scrambled to assert numismatic identity before merging into the UAE.
Fr#2 is the key reference here. Mintages for this series were low and inconsistently documented.