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3 Khumsiyyah
| Issuer | Tarim |
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| Year | 1842 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
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| Reverse description | Two crossed arrows or swords in saltire at center, with the mint name تريم (Tarim) inscribed in Arabic above and the Hijri date ١٢٥٨ (1258 AH) below. A small star or ornament appears in the upper field. The design is characteristic of the local Hadhramaut coinage tradition, struck on a plain copper flan. |
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Tarim, a city in the Hadhramaut valley of what is now Yemen, operated as a semi-autonomous sheikhdom whose local copper coinage served trade networks stretching into the Indian Ocean world. The Khumsiyyah denomination — literally referencing a fifth — reflects the fractional accounting systems used across the Arabian Peninsula and the Swahili coast, where Hadhramaut merchants were deeply embedded.
KM#206 is among the more obscure provincial Arabian issues, and genuine examples are frequently confused with contemporary imitative pieces struck for the same trade circuits.