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Para - Hamud
| Issuer | Abu ʽArish, Sheikhdom of |
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| Year | 1807-1812 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse description | Crude hammered field bearing multi-line Arabic calligraphic legend in a flowing, informal script typical of provincial Arabian coinage of the early nineteenth century. The inscription, occupying the majority of the flan, references the ruler Hamud. The die-work is irregular and the coin displays the characteristic uneven planchet shape of hand-struck billon issues from the Abu Arish Sheikhdom. |
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| Mintage | 1222 (1807) - - 1227 (1812) - - |
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Abu ʽArish, a small sheikhdom in the Tihama coastal plain of present-day southwestern Saudi Arabia, issued coinage during a period of intense political turbulence — the region was caught between the expanding First Saudi State and the waning grip of the Ottoman-backed Zaydī Imamate of Yemen. These billon pieces circulated in a zone where monetary authority was genuinely contested, and the act of striking local coinage was itself a political assertion.
Billon of this fineness and weight from minor Arabian sheikhdoms survives poorly; the alloy corrodes readily in the coastal humidity of the Tihama.