ID on this Yemen Coin/token please

[Digger54]

I picked this large coin/token up while I was in Yemen in 1976 and assume it may be silver plated brass. It is 40mm and weighs 19.5 grams.

I recognize the plant on the front as the coffee plant.

Just don't know if it is a coin or token and what year.

Any help appreciated.

 

[Mackaydon]

Per AI:

"This is an antique Yemeni silver coin pendtant used as traditional tribal jewelry.
It resembles resembles a 1963 Yemen Arab Republic 1 Riyal coin; selling between $25 and $135 depending on condition and rarity."
Don in SoCal
PS: The standard weight if it were a coin is 19.75g. The dates read "1382-1963".
1382 is the hijri date and the 1963 is our (Gregorian) date.

 

[Digger54]

Per AI:

"This is an antique Yemeni silver coin pendtant used as traditional tribal jewelry.
It resembles resembles a 1963 Yemen Arab Republic 1 Riyal coin; selling between $25 and $135 depending on condition and rarity."
Don in SoCal
PS: The standard weight if it were a coin is 19.75g. The dates read "1382-1963".

Thanks! I cleaned it up and the tarnish had fooled me into thinking it was brass. Here it is polished.

 

[Red-Coat]

Thanks! I cleaned it up and the tarnish had fooled me into thinking it was brass. Here it is polished.

It not only resembles a 1 riyal from North Yemen... that's what it is, but someone has soldered a suspension loop to it.
The brass-like appearance before you polished it was because these were struck in an alloy of .720 silver and ,280 copper.

 

[k0bgalan]

The writing looks like a Semitic language to me.

 

[Red-Coat]

The writing looks like a Semitic language to me.

The Coin is from North Yemen and the lettering is in Arabic, which belongs to the Central Semitic branch of the Afroasiatic language family, and is closely related to Hebrew, Amharic, and Aramaic.