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200 Rials Socotra islands
| Issuer | Yemen |
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| Year | 2018 |
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| Currency | Rial (1990-date) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse features a stylized design with a central bi-metallic-style orange insert. To the left, a detailed effigy of an Egyptian Vulture's head is depicted in profile, while to the right, a stylized ancient Egyptian falcon rendered in an ornamental manner flanks the central element. The denomination legend 'TWO HUNDRED RIALS' appears in the lower field in Latin script, with 'SOCOTRA' inscribed prominently above or across the design. |
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| Reverse lettering | سقطرى ٢٠٠ 2018 ВБ |
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Socotra sits in the Arabian Sea roughly 240 kilometers east of the Horn of Africa, and by 2018 Yemen was in the third year of a civil war that had effectively erased any functioning central monetary authority. Coins issued under the Yemeni name during this period were produced entirely for the collector market — no piece of this type ever entered circulation on the island or anywhere else in Yemen.
Socotra itself had changed hands politically during the conflict, occupied by UAE-backed forces in 2018 over Sana'a's protests. The timing is not coincidental.