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.
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.