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10 Riyals - Mohammed Apollo XIII
| Issuer | Fujairah |
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| Year | 1970 |
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| Orientation | Coin alignment ↑↓ |
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| Obverse description | The coat of arms of Fujairah is displayed centrally, flanked by two flags bearing the Arabic legend 'Al Fujairah'; the inscription appears normally on the left flag and in mirror image on the right. The state name 'STATE OF FUJAIRAH' appears in Latin script along the upper legend, with the Arabic equivalent 'حُكومَة الفجَيرة' also present. The denomination '10 RIYALS' and date '1970' are inscribed in the field, with the Hijri year '١٣٨٩' also noted. The silver fineness '1000' is stamped at the lower left, and the mintage figure '11657' is stamped at the lower right. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Fujairah was among the smallest and most financially marginal of the Trucial States, and its 1969–1971 commemorative coin program was nakedly commercial — produced not for circulation but for sale to foreign collectors through agencies like Imperia in Vaduz. The "Mohammed Apollo XIII" designation refers to the Apollo 13 mission of April 1970, though the naming convention grafting the ruling sheikh's name onto a NASA mission title was a marketing device with no official NASA endorsement or diplomatic significance whatsoever.
Apollo 13 never landed on the moon. Commemorating a near-disaster was an unusual sales pitch, though it apparently worked — dozens of Trucial State issues from this period flooded the collector market simultaneously.