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1 Rial 44th National Day
| Issuer | Central Bank of Oman |
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| Year | 2014 |
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| Diameter | 38.61 mm |
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| Reverse lettering | العيد الوطني الرابع والأربعون ٢٠١٤ مجلس عمان Oman Council 44th National Day 2014 (Translation: 44th National Day 2014 Oman Council) |
| Edge | Reeded |
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Oman's National Day commemoratives have been issued with considerable regularity since the 1970s, tied directly to the reign of Sultan Qaboos bin Said, who took power in a 1970 palace coup that deposed his own father. The 44th anniversary places this coin squarely in the later Qaboos era, by which point the oil-funded modernization program he launched had largely run its course and Oman was beginning to grapple with long-term revenue diversification under Vision 2020.
The KM#175 attribution places it within a dense sequence of similar commemorative rials, most sharing the same silver specification derived from the standard crown-sized planchet used across Commonwealth and Gulf issues of the period.