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25 Riyals - Jan Palach
| Issuer | Government of Ajman |
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| Year | 1970 |
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| Diameter | 21.5 mm |
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| Obverse description | Central field dominated by the large Arabic numeral ٢٥ (25) in bold relief, occupying the upper centre of the design. A continuous Arabic legend arcs around the upper periphery reading حُكُومَة عجمَان وَتوابعُهَا (Government of Ajman and its Dependencies), flanked by two five-pointed stars. The Latin legend GOVERNMENT OF AJMAN & ITS DEP runs along the lower arc. The entire design is framed by a tightly beaded border. |
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| Obverse script | Arabic, Latin |
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Ajman, smallest of the Trucial States, issued a flood of gold commemoratives in the late 1960s and early 1970s that were never intended to circulate — produced almost entirely for the European collector and investor markets, often through arrangements with foreign minting houses. This Jan Palach issue appeared roughly a year after the Czech student set himself on fire in Wenceslas Square in January 1969 to protest the Soviet-led Warsaw Pact invasion, his death triggering mass public mourning that the Czechoslovak government struggled to suppress.
The choice of subject by a Persian Gulf sheikhdom with no conceivable connection to Cold War Czechoslovakia reflects the purely commercial logic driving these issues.