FREE: EIGHT PIRATE coins United Arab Emirates 5 fils 1980s? *EXCELLENT Near MINT*

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EIGHT United Arab Emirates 5 fils copper coins ... with the fish symbol of these seafaring nations who became notorious pirates in the 18th century. All in excellent ondition, bright copper, many look virtually uncirculated. Probably from the early 1980s, I found a 1982 coin online that looks exactly like it.

The United Arab Emirates, a nation the size of Maine, is on the eastern part of the Arabian Peninsula, along the Gulf of Oman and the southern Persian Gulf. Its original inhabitants were a seafaring people converted to Islam in the 7th century. Later, the Carmathians established a powerful sheikdom, conquered Mecca, then the region dissolved into piracy, which provoked the intervention of the British in 1820.

Thus what had been called the Pirate Coast was renamed the Trucial Coast. The British provided the nine states with protection but did not formally administer them as a colony.

In 1971 seven of the states formed a federation known as the Trucial States—Abu Dhabi (the largest), Dubai, Sharjah, Ajman, Fujairah, Ras al-Khaimah, and Umm al-Qaiwain. The British withdrew from the Persian Gulf in 1971, and the Trucial states became a federation called the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

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