20 Rials Qadhi Azzubairi Memorial

Qadhi Muhammad Mahmud al-Zubayri was a poet and politician who became one of the central intellectual figures of the Yemeni republican movement, assassinated in April 1965 — reportedly while on a peace mission to royalist tribal leaders in the mountains near Arhab. The circumstances were murky enough that suspicion fell on multiple factions, and his death deepened fractures within the republican coalition that had deposed the Imamate in the 1962 revolution.

This commemorative was issued four years after his death, during a period when the civil war had technically ended but political consolidation was still fragile. Gold commemoratives from the Yemen Arab Republic's early years were almost exclusively produced for international sale rather than domestic circulation.