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| Issuer | People's Democratic Republic of Yemen |
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| Year | 1981 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#P1, Schön#15a |
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| Obverse script | Arabic, Latin |
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| Reverse script | Arabic |
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The International Year of Disabled Persons in 1981 prompted a wave of commemorative issues from governments eager to demonstrate participation in UN initiatives, and South Yemen was no exception. Piedfort strikes — double-thickness blanks — were a fashionable presentation format among European mints at the time, and the Aden issue followed suit, likely produced at a contracted European facility rather than domestically.
The PDRY's coinage output was always limited; the state had virtually no numismatic infrastructure of its own.