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5 Buqshah
| Issuer | North Yemen |
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| Year | 1963 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse lettering | الجمهورية العربية اليمنية ٥ بقشة (Translation: Arab Republic of Yemen 5 Buqsha) |
| Reverse description | Central field depicts a stylized leafy branch or spray, presented within a circular beaded border and surrounded by an elaborate arabesque wreath of interlaced foliate scrollwork forming the outer ring. The date appears in both the Islamic Hijri calendar (١٣٨٢) and the Gregorian calendar (١٩٦٣) inscribed in Arabic numerals below the central motif, separated by a dash. The decorative treatment echoes traditional Islamic artistic conventions characteristic of early Yemeni republican issues. |
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North Yemen's coinage in the early 1960s was produced under the Mutawakkilite Kingdom in its final years — the September 1962 revolution that toppled Imam Muhammad al-Badr came just months before this issue's date, meaning coins bearing this year likely straddle the old regime and the chaotic early period of the Yemen Arab Republic, when monetary continuity was maintained largely out of practical necessity rather than political endorsement.