3 Baisa - Said

Dhofar was not an independent state but a governorate under the Sultanate of Muscat and Oman, and these 1959 issues were authorized specifically for local circulation in the region rather than for the wider sultanate. Said bin Taimur's administration maintained a deliberately isolated monetary policy for Dhofar, separate from the Gulf rupee system operating elsewhere under his authority. The arrangement reflected the practical geography of a territory separated from Muscat by hundreds of miles of desert.

Within a decade, the Dhofar Rebellion would begin — a communist-backed insurgency that ultimately prompted Said's overthrow by his own son in 1970.