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50 Baisa - Qaboos
| Issuer | Central Bank of Oman |
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| Year | 1999 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse lettering | بيسة ٥۰ ١٤٢٠هـ ١٩٩٩م (Translation: 50 Baisa AD1999 AH1420) |
| Edge | Reeded |
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This issue falls within the long coinage program of Sultan Qaboos bin Said, who took power in a 1970 palace coup that deposed his own father, Said bin Taimur. The elder sultan had kept Oman in deliberate isolation — no schools, no hospitals, no modern roads — and the coinage reform that followed the coup was part of a sweeping modernization that introduced the rial Saidi and, shortly after, the rial Omani monetary system. The Schön#54.2 designation distinguishes it from the earlier 54.1 subtype, reflecting a detail revision in the series.