rare Starbucks Mug BAHRAIN v1 Pearl Monument Global City Icon Collectors Series

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I have many other Starbucks mugs. Check out my other items!This listing is for the original BAHRAIN v1 PEARL MONUMENT icon mug pictured. This is from my personal collection. Here is a little background as to why this mug is so rare.This is probably the rarest of the icon mugs. In 2010 -2011 there were Arab uprisings. During the protest, the Pearl monument, pictured on the mug, located at the Pearl Roundabout at the heart of Manama Bahrain's financial district was the center of the demonstrators protests and it was their defining monument. The Bahraini government tore down the monument in March of 2011 to discourage the protests and in hopes of ending the demonstrations. Once the monument was removed the Bahraini government ordered all depictions of the monument be removed from anything and everything and made it illegal for people to sell items with the monument on them. This included the Starbucks mugs depicting the Pearl Monument. Very few survived. (Condition: Brand New)