the ottawa herald gave coverage to the plight of the oil sheikhs of the arabian gulf , whose fortunes that had once been vast beyond belief , were now as nothing , as they were forced to hand over their scottish currency - kuwait , eleven pounds and four pence ; iraq , twenty-eight pounds , six shillings , and five pence ; even the vast wealth of saudi , nearly seventy-four pounds held in scottish coins , now lay in the hands of professor alan humphries .