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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;willieboyd2, post: 26642263, member: 4910&quot;]The coin is 1/8 Riyal - al-Nasir Ahmad bin Yahya</p><p>Numista entry:</p><p><a href="https://en.numista.com/19674" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.numista.com/19674" rel="nofollow">https://en.numista.com/19674</a></p><p><br /></p><p>An interesting coin:</p><p><br /></p><p><i>Qataban and Sheba</i> by Wendell Phillips is a book about archaelogy published in 1955.</p><p><br /></p><p>The fuller title is <i>Exploring the Ancient Kingdoms on the Biblical Spice Routes of Arabia</i>.</p><p><br /></p><p>Phillips did not have much money but was able to talk people into putting up money for an archaeological expedition to Yemen (South Arabia) in the early 1950&#039;s to look for the site of the legendary city of Marib, the Queen of Sheba&#039;s capital.</p><p><br /></p><p>From the book:</p><blockquote><p><br /></p><p>It added enormously to [the accountant&#039;s] bookkeeping, however, for small change was a never-ending nuisance.</p><p><br /></p><p>We used Arabian buqshas in seven different coin sizes--half buqshas, buqshas, two buqshas, two and a half buqshas, four buqshas, five buqshas, and ten buqshas. Forty buqshas equaled one Maria Theresa dollar, which was worth half an American dollar.</p><p><br /></p></blockquote><p>The coin pictured is 1/8 riyal or five buqshas.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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