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1/2 Baiza - Ali ibn Mohasan
| Issuer | Sultanate of Lahej |
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| Year | 1860 |
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| Currency | Baiza |
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| Obverse description | Central field occupied by three lines of Arabic inscription giving the ruler's name and tribal affiliation, arranged horizontally across the flan. The lettering is rendered in a bold, legible Naskh script. The entire design is enclosed within a beaded border running close to the rim. The field is otherwise plain, with no additional ornamental devices. |
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| Reverse script | Arabic |
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Lahej was one of the few Arabian sultanates to strike its own copper coinage under British watch — the East India Company had controlled Aden since 1839, and local rulers retained limited ceremonial autonomy that occasionally extended to issuing small-denomination currency. Ali ibn Mohasan's half baiza represents one of the earliest documented coinages from the sultanate, and the series is thin enough that individual die states matter considerably to attribution. KM#1 by definition means there was essentially nothing before it.