25 Dirhams

Qatar's 25 dirham piece circulated through a period when the riyal's peg to the US dollar — fixed at 3.64 since 1980 — was under no particular pressure, making these coins workhorses of everyday commerce rather than artifacts of monetary drama. The Central Bank absorbed the Gulf Cooperation Council's broader push toward coinage standardization in this period, though Qatar retained its own designs rather than adopting a unified GCC issue, a proposal that ultimately went nowhere.