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20 Rials - Qaboos 25th National Day, Silver
| Issuer | Central Bank of Oman |
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| Year | 1995 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Reverse script | Arabic, Latin |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Oman's 25th National Day commemorates the 1970 coup in which Qaboos bin Said deposed his own father, Said bin Taimur, ending a reign so isolationist that the country had fewer than ten kilometers of paved road and a handful of schools. The transformation Qaboos oversaw in the following quarter-century was dramatic enough to make a silver commemorative politically defensible.
Struck in sterling-grade silver at a moment when Gulf states were actively building numismatic programs to diversify revenue, this KM#143 issue is relatively common in original packaging.