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50 Rials Qadhi Azzubairi Memorial, gold issue
| Issuer | Yemen Arab Republic |
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| Year | 1969 |
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| Currency | Rial (1918-1974) |
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| Obverse lettering | الجمهورية العربية اليمنية 50R ٥٠ ﷼ 1969 - ١٩٦٩ YEMEN ARAB REPUBLIC |
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| Mintage | 1969 - Proof - 2,025 1969 - Proof Sets (KM#PS1) - 2,000 |
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Issued by the Yemen Arab Republic in the turbulent years following the 1962 republican revolution that ended the Mutawakkilite Kingdom, this commemorative honored Muhammad Mahmud al-Zubairi, the poet and nationalist politician assassinated in April 1965 — a killing widely attributed to royalist forces still fighting the ongoing civil war. Al-Zubairi had been one of the intellectual architects of the republican movement, and his death mid-conflict made him an immediate martyr figure for the Sana'a government.
The civil war with royalist factions, backed by Saudi Arabia against Egyptian-supported republicans, was still unresolved when this piece was struck. Collector-targeted gold issues of this weight were a common revenue mechanism for cash-strapped governments of the period.