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71/2 Riyals - Rashid Barbary Falcon
| Issuer | Government of Ajman |
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| Year | 1970 |
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| Value | 71/2 Riyals (7.5) |
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| Obverse script | Arabic, Latin |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Ajman, smallest of the Trucial States by area, issued a wave of collector-targeted silver pieces in the years immediately before the UAE federation absorbed the individual sheikhdoms in 1971. These were never intended for circulation — Ajman had no real monetary infrastructure of its own, and the pieces were produced almost entirely for the international numismatic market, a practice that drew criticism from other Trucial rulers and would later complicate the transition to federal coinage.
The Barbary falcon denomination series is notably fractional and awkward — 7½ riyals sits in no logical monetary sequence, a detail that confirms the purely philatelic-numismatic commercial logic behind the issue.