25 Rials - Qaboos Save the Children Fund

Issued to benefit the International Year of the Child fundraising efforts, this piece was struck in limited numbers by the Central Bank of Oman under Sultan Qaboos bin Said, whose government used commemorative gold issues throughout the 1980s and early 1990s as a deliberate instrument of international goodwill. The Save the Children Fund connection places it within a broader Gulf-state tradition of charitable coinage that peaked during this period before declining sharply after the Gulf War disrupted regional monetary priorities.

Fr#12 in the Friedberg gold census confirms the modest mintage — scarce enough that auction appearances remain infrequent.