25 Riyals - Rashid Dag Hammarskjöld

Ajman, smallest of the Trucial States with a population barely reaching 4,000 at the time of issue, produced this coin not for circulation but almost entirely for the international collector market. The Trucial rulers discovered in the late 1960s that gold commemorative issues — regardless of local monetary relevance — could generate hard currency revenue well in excess of face value. Dag Hammarskjöld, the UN Secretary-General killed in a 1961 plane crash over Northern Rhodesia under circumstances still disputed, became a favored subject across multiple small-state commemorative programs of this period.