5 Riyals - Rashid Dag Hammarskjöld

Ajman, the smallest and least populous of the Trucial States, issued a flood of commemorative coins in the late 1960s and early 1970s with almost no intention of circulation — these pieces were produced primarily for the international collector market, a revenue strategy common among the smaller Gulf sheikhdoms before the formation of the UAE in 1971. This Hammarskjöld issue appeared nearly a decade after his death in a 1961 plane crash over Northern Rhodesia, a disaster that remains officially unresolved; a 2019 UN inquiry found fresh evidence suggesting the aircraft may have been shot down.