Oman AH1400 5 baisa
This specimen was lot 940 in Stephen Album sale 30 (Santa Rosa, CA, January 2018), where it did not sell. The catalog description[1] noted, "OMAN: Qaboos bin Said, 1970—, AE 5 baisa, AH1400, only 8 examples known, PCGS graded Specimen-66RD, RRR, ex King's Norton Mint Collection. Tied with finest graded example!" Oman, long a British protectorate, achieved full independence in 1971. Coinage began that year. She has watched enviously as her neighbors, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, harvest billions of dollars by selling oil, of which little occurs in Omani territory. This type is listed for 1975, 1979, 1985, 1989 and 1997 and all dates are common. Unlike the F.A.O. issues which were sold to collectors, this circulation type does not bear an A.D. date.
Recorded mintage: 3,000,000.
Specification: 3.1 g, bronze, 19 mm diameter.
Catalog reference: KM-50.
- 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 30, featuring the George Anderson Collection of Tibetan Coins, the Dr. John W. Lund Collection of Swedish Coins and the Mike Edwards Collection, Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2018.
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