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500 Fils - Hamad Pattern
| Issuer | Fujairah (United Arab Emirates) |
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| Year | 1968 |
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| Currency | Dinar |
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| Obverse script | Arabic/Latin |
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| Reverse description | A crested bird perched on a branch and facing left occupies the central field, rendered in naturalistic style. The denomination is expressed in both Arabic numerals and Eastern Arabic script to the left and right of the design, with the word FILS in Latin script below the English numeral 500. The date 1968 appears in both Western and Arabic-Indic numerals, distributed in the lower portion of the field and along the periphery. |
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Fujairah was among the least economically developed of the seven Trucial States and had no functioning monetary infrastructure of its own when this piece was produced. The 1968 patterns for Fujairah were almost certainly commissioned through outside minting agencies — most likely in London or continental Europe — as speculative issues aimed squarely at the collector market rather than genuine monetary planning. Independence and federation were still years away, and no Fujairah coinage ever entered circulation.
The X# prefix in Krause confirms its pattern status. Hamad bin Mohammed al-Sharqi had ruled since 1952; he died in 1974, one year after Fujairah joined the UAE.