Bahrain AH1398 (1978) 50 dinars
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
This specimen was lot 1317 in Stephen Album sale 41 (Santa Rosa, CA, September 2021), where it did not sell. The catalog description[1] noted, "BAHRAIN: Isa Bin Salman, 1961-1999, AV 50 dinars, 1978//AH1398, NGC graded PF63 UC, S." This design, commemorating an event of stupefying insignificance, was also used on KM 12 (gold 100 dinars). Bahrain, an island in the Persian Gulf between Qatar and Saudi Arabia, was long a protectorate of Great Britain. The first coins issued for the sheikhdom are dated 1965 and the state became fully independent in 1971.
Recorded mintage: 5,000.
Specification: 15.98 g, 0.917 fine gold (same standard as a British gold two pounds).
Catalog reference: KM-11.
- Friedberg, Arthur L. and Ira S. Friedberg, Gold Coins of the World, From Ancient Times to the Present, 9th ed., Clifton, NJ: Coin and Currency Institute, 2017.
- Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1901-2000, 47th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
- [1]Album, Stephen, Joseph Lang, Paul Montz, Michael Barry and Norman Douglas Nicol, Auction 41, featuring the Dick Nanta Collection of Giray Khans, Part II, the Charles Opitz Collection of Ethnographic Money, Part II, and the Allan F. Pacela Collection of Chinese Coins. Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2021.
Link to: