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20 Rials Albakiriah Mosque
| Issuer | Yemen Arab Republic |
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| Year | 1975 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse lettering | الجمهورية العربية اليمنية ٢٠ ريالاً 1975 ١٣٩٥ 20 RIALS [900] YEMEN ARAB REPUBLIC |
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| Reverse lettering | جامع البكيرية ALBAKIRIAH MOSQUE |
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Issued to mark the restoration of the Al-Bakiriyah Mosque in Sana'a, a Ottoman-era structure built in 1597 under the command of the Ottoman governor Hassan Pasha. The mosque survived Yemen's 1962 republican revolution largely intact, though the surrounding city changed irreversibly. This coin was part of a limited commemorative gold series produced for the Yemen Arab Republic during a period when the north was consolidating its identity against the Soviet-backed south.