50 Ryals - Ghalib

Ghalib ibn Ali al-Hinai, the last Imam of Oman, was deposed by Sultan Said bin Taimur in 1954 after a brief attempt to register Oman's interior as a sovereign state with the Arab League. He spent decades in exile, primarily in Saudi Arabia, continuing to press his claim through diplomacy and, at one point, armed insurgency backed by Saudi and Egyptian interests — the so-called Imamate rebellion that dragged on into the mid-1960s. This coin is a product of that exiled administration's effort to assert legitimacy through the trappings of statehood.

Issues of the Imamate government in exile saw no circulation and exist purely as political artifacts. The X# prefix in Krause reflects its non-circulation status.