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5 Baisa - Said
| Issuer | Muscat and Oman |
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| Year | 1962 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
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| Reverse description | At center, a traditional Arabian dhow under full sail is depicted in left profile upon stylized waves, enclosed within a raised circular border. The Arabic word for 'Baisa' appears as a legend above the central circle, flanked on either side by the numeral '5' in Eastern Arabic script. The Hijri date '١٣٨١' (1381) is inscribed below the dhow within the circle, and the word 'Muscat' in Arabic appears beneath the circle in the lower field. A denticled outer border surrounds the entire design. |
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Muscat and Oman issued this coin under Said bin Taimur, the sultan whose extreme fiscal conservatism — he famously opposed roads, schools, and hospitals as corrupting influences — kept the country in deliberate isolation well into the oil era. The 1962 coinage reform introduced the baisa denominations to replace the earlier anna-based system, a decimal restructuring that Said ultimately couldn't prevent despite his resistance to modernization. He was deposed by his son Qaboos in a palace coup in 1970.