50 Rials Qadhi Azzubairi Memorial

Qadhi Muhammad Mahmoud al-Zubairi was a poet and politician who became one of the most venerated figures of the Yemeni republican movement, assassinated in 1965 under circumstances that remain disputed — royalist involvement was widely assumed but never conclusively proven. This commemorative was issued twenty-five years after his death, by which point the Yemen Arab Republic had survived the civil war that killed him and was itself only two years from merging into unified Yemen in 1990.

The timing makes this a late-period issue from a state on the verge of dissolution, struck in the final months before unification formally ended the YAR's existence on May 22, 1990.