Evidence coverage: 1928–1966. This is the span of collected observations, not the currency’s lifetime.
This record includes associated currencies and earlier interpretations. The article selects the evidence relevant to its own history.
Evidence within this identity, not separate currencies.
Supporting material, not parents or children.
Instructions effective 23 March 1936 abolished gold-piastre reckoning, required affected government revenues to be doubled in Saudi piastres, and retained revenues already based on Saudi piastres. This is an account conversion within the Saudi profile.
Sources and qualifications →The 1936 diplomatic report describes the 1928 Saudi rules as adapting older Turkish gold-account reckoning while substituting the Saudi riyal for the mejidie. It separately reports continued non-Saudi currency use in Najd.
Sources and qualifications →The Hejazi Saudi account system adapted Ottoman theoretical gold-piastre reckoning in 1928. The March 1936 finance instructions explicitly superseded that gold-piastre revenue unit with Saudi piastres, doubling stated revenue amounts. Direct contemporary account-unit lineage and later legal revenue conversion support regional ancestry. Do not generalize it to every currency circulating in Najd.
Sources and qualifications →Dated evidence, not exact birth or extinction dates.
Instructions effective 23 March 1936 abolished gold-piastre reckoning, required affected government revenues to be doubled in Saudi piastres, and retained revenues already based on Saudi piastres. This is an account conversion within the Saudi profile.
C1219Includes dated issues, standards, subdivisions and institutional changes. Each event retains the source's date qualifications.
The Saudi Central Bank dates the first Saudi silver riyal to 1346 AH/1928 AD and the first silver riyal bearing the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's name to 1354 AH/1935 AD.
C501Dated observations, not a proven complete lifespan.
The Saudi Central Bank dates the first Saudi silver riyal to 1346 AH/1928 AD and the first silver riyal bearing the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's name to 1354 AH/1935 AD.
Unification of currency and post-unification timeline
Saudi reckoning adapted Ottoman gold-piastre accounting in the Hejazi monetary system. Contemporary reporting describes the 1928 substitution and inherited theoretical piastres; the qualified branch concerns this local account tradition, not uniform replacement across Najd or ancestry inferred from coin weight.
Corrected interpretation: Revision 27 supplies a new evidence basis for R-V24-004. Direct contemporary account-unit lineage and later legal revenue conversion support regional ancestry. Do not generalize it to every currency circulating in Najd. Replacement evidence: C1626.
British Library IOR/R/15/2/310, fol.120v, printed p.17, paragraphs 2–4; British Library IOR/R/15/2/310, fol.121r, printed p.18, translated enclosure, clauses 1–7
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
Full Qatar Digital Library transcription inspected.
British Library IOR/R/15/2/310, fol.120v, printed p.17, paragraphs 2–4; British Library IOR/R/15/2/310, fol.121r, printed p.18, translated enclosure, clauses 1–7
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
Full archival transcription inspected; translated original instructions, not a newly inspected Arabic decree.
Instructions effective 23 March 1936 abolished gold-piastre reckoning, required affected government revenues to be doubled in Saudi piastres, and retained revenues already based on Saudi piastres. This is an account conversion within the Saudi profile.
British Library IOR/R/15/2/310, fol.121r, printed p.18, translated enclosure, clauses 1–7
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
Full archival transcription inspected; translated original instructions, not a newly inspected Arabic decree.
The 1936 diplomatic report describes the 1928 Saudi rules as adapting older Turkish gold-account reckoning while substituting the Saudi riyal for the mejidie. It separately reports continued non-Saudi currency use in Najd.
British Library IOR/R/15/2/310, fol.120v, printed p.17, paragraphs 2–4
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
Full Qatar Digital Library transcription inspected.
The Hejazi Saudi account system adapted Ottoman theoretical gold-piastre reckoning in 1928. The March 1936 finance instructions explicitly superseded that gold-piastre revenue unit with Saudi piastres, doubling stated revenue amounts.
British Library IOR/R/15/2/310, fol.120v, printed p.17, paragraphs 2–4; British Library IOR/R/15/2/310, fol.121r, printed p.18, translated enclosure, clauses 1–7
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
Full Qatar Digital Library transcription inspected.
British Library IOR/R/15/2/310, fol.120v, printed p.17, paragraphs 2–4; British Library IOR/R/15/2/310, fol.121r, printed p.18, translated enclosure, clauses 1–7
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
Full archival transcription inspected; translated original instructions, not a newly inspected Arabic decree.
Qatar and Dubai exchanged the temporarily circulating Saudi riyals into Qatar-Dubai riyals in September 1966 at 106.5 new riyals for100 Saudi riyals, pursuant to the amended Currency Agreement.
Printed pp135–136; Currency Agreement amended31August1966 art27; Board1966 appendices3–4
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.