100 Riyals GCC Banking Conference

The Gulf Cooperation Council central bank governors' conferences have rarely produced commemorative coinage, making this issue unusual in its institutional focus. Qatar used the occasion to assert its growing role in regional financial architecture — the country had by 2011 already weathered the 2008 credit crisis in notably better shape than several of its neighbors, owing in large part to conservative reserve policies maintained by the QCB under Sheikh Abdullah bin Saud Al Thani.

At 122 grams, this is a substantial striking, produced in limited numbers primarily for presentation to conference delegates and dignitaries rather than any secondary market.