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QU'AITI STATE OF HADHRAMAUT: Abdat Umar bin Abdat, 1920-1939, AR 60 chomsihs, al-Ghurfah, AH1344

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QU'AITI STATE OF HADHRAMAUT: Abdat Umar bin Abdat, 1920-1939, AR 60 chomsihs, al-Ghurfah, AH1344
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QU'AITI STATE OF HADHRAMAUT: Abdat Umar bin Abdat, 1920-1939, AR 60 chomsihs, al-Ghurfah, AH1344, KM-6, Y-12, a lovely uncleaned example of this scarce denomination, NGC graded AU58. Abdat Umar, who had made a fortune in Singapore and Java during the first quarter of the 20th century, issued silver coins, in denominations of four, eight, fifteen, thirty, forty-five and sixty 'khumsiyyah' (with a hundred and twenty of 'khumsiyyah' to the Maria Theresa 'riyal') to bolster their claims to statehood. This had followed their seizure of a small town in Wadi Hadhramaut called al-Ghurfah from the Ba Abbad clan in AH1344 (1925/26), in a move to declare themselves independent of the authority of their traditional overlord, the Kathiri Sultan of Seiyun.