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Yemen, gold riyal, al-Nasir Ahmad bin Yahya (Imam Ahmad), AH1378 (1959), NGC MS 63, finest known in

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Yemen, gold riyal, al-Nasir Ahmad bin Yahya (Imam Ahmad), AH1378 (1959), NGC MS 63, finest known in
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Yemen, gold riyal, al-Nasir Ahmad bin Yahya (Imam Ahmad), AH1378 (1959), NGC MS 63, finest known in NGC census. KM-YG17.2; Fr-8. A large and interesting coin apparently (by weight) struck in the equivalent of four British sovereigns (normally seen with an incuse Arabic 4 punched above the sword handles, but not in this case) using dies for the silver Ahmadi riyal, also with evidence of having been struck over another coin (the undercoin details too faint for us to attribute, possibly just a rotated double-strike), lustrous and close to pristine despite some surface roughness (as made) and tiny marks, the finer of just two in the current NGC census. NGC #4445782-014. Pedigreed to the Stack's Bowers auction of January 2018 (lot 21422) and to the Heritage auction of August 2017 (lot 30494).