5 Riyals Pattern

Pattern issues from the Qatar Central Bank are rarely documented with meaningful production records, and this gold piece is no exception. The 2000 date places it within a period of active monetary modernization across the Gulf states, though whether this pattern preceded a planned circulation issue that was never realized, or served an internal proofing function, is not definitively established in the standard references.

KM#Pn8 is among a small cluster of Qatari patterns catalogued by Krause without mintage figures.