FREE: Another Pirate Coin TWO United Arab Emirates Old Coins Fish and Oil Derricks

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TWO United Arab Emirates coins, possibly 1980s. The copper is the 5 fils ... with the fish symbol of these seafaring nations who became notorious pirates in the 18th century. The other coin has the triple oil derricks, it is a 50 fils coin, probably also from the 1980s.

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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 skeikdoms 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).