| 表面の説明 |
Central design features the emblem of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC): a stylized hexagonal cartouche enclosing a map of the Arabian Peninsula, surrounded by a circular wreath device. Below the central emblem, the full Arabic name of the GCC appears in a curved legend across the lower field. The seal of the Central Bank of Kuwait, depicting a traditional dhow, is displayed at the base within an ornate decorative panel. A bilingual circular legend in Arabic and Latin script frames the design along the outer rim, reading 'Commemorative issue on the 40th anniversary of the establishment of the Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf' and '5 DINARS', with the Arabic denomination 'خمسة دنانير' also present. |
The Gulf Cooperation Council was founded in Abu Dhabi in May 1981, bringing together Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the UAE, Qatar, Bahrain, and Oman under a framework driven as much by shared anxiety over the Iranian Revolution and the Iran-Iraq War as by any organic economic logic. Four decades on, the bloc's ambitions — including a long-promised monetary union — remain largely unrealized, the single currency project having quietly collapsed after Kuwait's decision to unpeg from the dollar in 2007 created irreconcilable differences over exchange rate policy.
Kuwait issued this commemorative through its central bank rather than a dedicated mint authority, with gold-plated .999 silver a format increasingly common in Gulf commemorative programs of this period.