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1 Rial 43rd National Day
| Issuer | Central Bank of Oman |
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| Year | 2013 |
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| Currency | Rial (1972-date) |
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| Reverse description | At center, a detailed relief reproduction of the historic Umayyad dirham minted in Oman in AH 81 (700 CE), rendered with its characteristic concentric circles of Kufic Arabic inscriptions and without figural imagery, faithful to early Islamic epigraphic coinage. The inner field displays the Islamic profession of faith in multiple lines of Kufic script, with marginal inscriptions in the surrounding annulus. Flanking the central motif on either side of the broad outer border are two small Omani national emblems. The surrounding legend reads in Arabic above and in Latin below, identifying this as the first mint of Oman, with the date AH 81 noted in Arabic numerals. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Oman's National Day commemorates the birthday of Sultan Qaboos bin Said, who seized power from his father Said bin Taimur in a palace coup in July 1970. The 43rd National Day therefore marks 43 years since that bloodless overthrow, which ended a deeply isolationist regime that had banned radios, spectacles, and foreign travel for ordinary Omanis. Qaboos transformed the country with extraordinary speed using newly developed oil revenues.
KM#173 is one of a long-running annual series; the Central Bank has issued commemorative rials for nearly every National Day since the 1970s, making this a collected sequence rather than a standalone piece.