In the Krause Catalog 1901-2000, the only mention of KM #34 for Saudi Arabia is:
Quote: KM#34 4 Pounds 31.9500 g., 0.9170 Gold 0.9419 oz AGW Obv: Eagle with wings open Rev: Three lined inscription within horizontal bars Note: KM#34 was struck at the Philadelphia Mint for a concession payment for oil to the Saudi Government. Most were melted into bullion.
Yep, it should still be listed in Krause; consensus still seems to be that it qualifies as a "coin". Here's the NGC database page. In my (old) Krause, they have it filed right at the end of the Saudi Arabia listing, under "Bullion coinage - post-WWII Issues".
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Officially it is not a coin, it was meant to be bullion ordered from the US Philly mint to pay Royalties to the Saudi Administration for US oil conglomerate "ARAMCO".
Right now I am using the Krause "Collecting World Coins 1901-Present 13th edition" and its not in there.
Quote: Right now I am using the Krause "Collecting World Coins 1901-Present 13th edition" and its not in there.
That's the "cut-down" version of Krause, and doesn't include a lot of things. The books entitled "Standard Catalogue of World Coins" are their comprehensive world coin books.
Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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Posted 04/22/2013 9:02 pm
