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20 Rials Albakiriah Mosque
| Issuer | Yemen Arab Republic |
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| Year | 1975 |
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| Value | 20 Rials (20 YER) |
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| Obverse description | The national coat of arms of the Yemen Arab Republic is depicted centrally, featuring a golden eagle displayed with wings spread, its breast overlaid with a shield bearing national symbols, and crossed traditional jambiya daggers beneath. The Arabic legend along the upper arc reads the country name, with the denomination '20 rials' in Arabic script below. The Gregorian year '1975' appears to the left and the Hijri year '1395' in Arabic-Indic numerals to the right of the central device. The denomination '20 RIALS' is inscribed in large Latin characters along the lower field, with 'YEMEN ARAB REPUBLIC' arcing along the bottom periphery. The fineness mark '900' appears as a small cartouche in the lower field, and the entire design is contained within a beaded inner border following the octagonal flan. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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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.