200 Rials Socotra islands

Features

Location Yemen
Issuing entity Vitaly Bakhtinov
Type Fantasy items › Fantasy currency
Year 2018
Value 200 Rials
Composition Silver plated copper-nickel
Weight 31.8 g
Diameter 40.1 mm
Thickness 3.5 mm
Shape Round
Technique Milled
Orientation Medal alignment ↑↑
Number
N#
141252

Obverse

Head of an Egyptian Vulture and an stylized ancient Egyptian falcon with an orange center.
Value,

Lettering:
SOCOTRA
TWO HUNDRED RIALS

Reverse

One of the island's famed Dragon's Blood Trees with an orange sun above.
ВБ (VB, Vitaly Bakhtinov)
Value in arabic.
Date.

Lettering:
سقطرى
٢٠٠
2018
ВБ

Translation:
Socotra
200

Edge

Reeded

Comments

Socotra is an island in the Arabian Sea that is officially part of Yemen, claimed by Somalia and in recent years has been occupied by troops of the United Arab Emirates. The isolated island is the home of many endemic species and has been called "the most alien-looking place on earth". It was a trading base in ancient times. Tradition holds that the island was converted to Christianity when St. Thomas the Apostle was ship wrecked there on his way to India. By the 16th century most of islands inhabitants converted to Islam. One side of this unofficial 2018 200 Rials of Scotra is in English and features the head of an Egyptian Vulture and an stylized ancient Egyptian falcon with an orange center. The other side features one of the island's famed Dragon's Blood Trees with an orange sun above. The attractive 40mm silver plated Proof coin has a mintage of only 150

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Date Mintage VG F VF XF AU UNC
2018  150 Proof

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