United Arab Emirates 1998 50 dirhams KM-37
This specimen was lot 3278 in Stephen Album sale 38 (Santa Rosa, CA, September 2020), where it sold for $261.80. The catalog description[1] noted, "UNITED ARAB EMIRATES: AR 50 dirhams, 1998/AH1419, The 50th Anniversary of the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF), PCGS graded PF69 DC." The second specimen was lot 2816 in Stephen Album sale 41 (Santa Rosa, CA, September 2021), where it sold for $144. The catalog description[2] noted, "UNITED ARAB EMIRATES: AR 50 dirhams, 1998/AH1419, Landmans-37, The 50th Anniversary of the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF), PCGS graded PF69 DC." Altho this denomination was usually reserved for a 40 g silver coin, this one weighs only 27.5 g.
Recorded mintage: 25,000 proofs.
Specification: 27.50 g, 0.925 fine silver.
Catalog reference: KM-37.
- 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 38, featuring the Dabestani Collection of Persian Coins, Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2020.
- [2]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.
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- 1995 500 dirhams, 20th Anniversary, Women's Union
- 1996 50 dirhams, 25th Anniversary of the UAE
- 1998 50 dirhams, tenth Anniversary of the Higher Colleges of Technology
- 1998 50 dirhams, UNESCO Selection of Sharjah as the Cultural Capital of the Arab World
- 1999 25 dirhams, First Oil Shipment from Abu Al Bukhoosh Oil Field
- Coins and currency dated 1998