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1000 Dirhams / 10 Riyals - Khālid III Simon Bolivar, Reverse Trial
| Issuer | Sharjah (United Arab Emirates) |
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| Year | 1970 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is essentially plain, presenting a broad, unadorned silver-plated field with no central design or legend. At the very bottom of the field, a small rectangular cartouche bears the mintmaker's mark [MET.] above the inscription GORI & ZUCCHI in incuse Latin lettering, identifying the Italian metallurgical firm responsible for the planchet preparation. The surrounding edge is reeded. This intentionally blank reverse confirms the piece's status as a reverse trial or pattern striking. |
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| Mintage | ND (1970) - Proof |
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Sharjah's early commemorative program was among the most aggressively speculative in the Trucial States, issuing coins explicitly for the international collector market rather than circulation — a strategy that drew sustained criticism from the numismatic press throughout the early 1970s. This piece is a reverse trial, struck from the production die of KM#5 but on a silver-plated rather than silver flan, placing it outside the regular issue entirely.
The Bolívar connection is entirely commercial: Sharjah licensed foreign historical subjects with no geographic or political relationship to the emirate, pairing them with inflated face values to manufacture artificial prestige.