Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria to coincide with the OMRS Convention

Arabian States, Sultanate of Quaiti (Shiher and Mukalla), Meritorious Service Medal, 36mm., bronze, obv: bust of Sultan Sir Saleh bin Ghalib; rev: coat-of-arms of the Sultanate, good very fine £40-50

Manufactured by the British Royal Mint; 62 were produced in 1948.

The Sultanate of Quaiti was centred around the towns of Mukalla and Shiher on the Indian Ocean coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It later became part of the Federation of South Arabia and then the People’s Democratic Republic of Yemen.