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Country: UAE, United Arab Emirates
Capital: Abu Dhabi
Currency: UAE dirham
Numeric code: 784
Alphabetic code: AED
North of the Peninsula of Arabia belongs to the seven independent Emirates of the United in a common state - the United Arab Emirates. Total area Association of 83600 square kilometers. Ruled a population of nearly five and a half million people, the Emir of Abu Dhabi (the most significant, extensive and wealthiest Emirate). It is also the capital of the state of education. Common to all of the Emirates of the Union, is the dirham, which equals one hundred Fils. He was introduced into circulation in 1973. Was the coin minted all happy shaped coin catalog United Arab Emirates: 1 dirham and 1, 5, 10, 25, 50 Fils.
Trivia to ten Fils for making got the bronze and the higher denominations were awarded an alloy of Nickel and copper. Coins of the first issue of repeated design and size predecessor, the Riyal of Qatar and Dubai. In 1995 and 1 dirham 50 Fils reduced in size. 50 Fils went further and made them heptagonal.
All symbols on the coins performed in Arabic. The change from 1 to 10 Fils is hardly used by the residents of the Emirates, they prefer to round amounts to 25 Fils. You can already rank 1 Fils to numismatic rarities, which automatically raises the price of UAE coins of similar denomination.
Arab Emirates not forget about their rulers and the events important for the country, periodically (1976) releasing commemorative coins. The value of the coins UAE the jubilee cycle, of course, is different from the everyday instances. To buy the same coins UAE "common areas" is quite real.
