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500 Dirhams - Zayed UAE 5th National Day
| Issuer | United Arab Emirates |
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| Year | 1976 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
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| Reverse script | Arabic, Latin |
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Issued to mark the fifth anniversary of UAE federation in December 1976, this coin appeared while Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan was consolidating the young union's institutions — five years in, several of the seven emirates still had unresolved boundary disputes and competing tribal loyalties. The federation's survival was genuinely uncertain at the time, and commemorative gold issues like this one served a dual political function: projecting unity abroad while circulating domestically as tangible assertions of statehood.
Fr#2 in the Friedberg gold reference places this among the earliest substantive gold issues of the UAE series, with the .916 fineness matching traditional 22-karat British sovereign standards the Gulf had long used for trade coinage.