50 Baisa - Said

Said bin Taimur's government struck this coin in the final months of his reign — he was deposed by his own son, Qaboos, in a palace coup on July 23, 1970, backed covertly by the British. Said had ruled since 1932, keeping Oman in deliberate isolation: electricity, education, and modern infrastructure were actively suppressed. Coins bearing his name were almost immediately superseded by issues under Qaboos, making this one of the shortest-lived circulating types in the sultanate's modern coinage history.