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50 Gold Pounds GEM- Hatshepsut Statue
| Issuer | Central Bank of Egypt |
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| Year | 2025 |
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| Currency | Pound (1916-date) |
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| Obverse lettering | جمهورية مصر العربية المتحف المصرى الكبير GRAND EGYPTIAN MUSEUM ١٤٤٧ هـ ٢٠٢٥ م ٥٠ جنيهاً (Translation: Arab Republic of Egypt The Grand Egyptian Museum 2025 AD 1447 Hijri 50 Pounds) |
| Reverse description | At center, a detailed rendition of the ancient Egyptian kneeling statue of Hatshepsut, depicted in frontal view wearing the nemes headdress and seated on a plinth with hands resting flat on the thighs in the traditional pharaonic pose. The upper periphery bears the circular Latin legend 'OPENING OF THE GRAND EGYPTIAN MUSEUM' with the year '2025' at lower left and its Arabic numeral equivalent at lower right. The lower portion of the field displays the Arabic inscription 'افتتاح المتحف المصرى الكبير' (Opening of the Grand Egyptian Museum) in an elegant cursive script. |
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Egypt's 50-pound gold denomination has been issued sporadically by the Central Bank since the late twentieth century, typically tied to specific cultural or state occasions rather than regular bullion programs. The .875 fineness — 22-karat — places this coin squarely in the tradition of older sovereign-era gold standards, the same alloy used for British sovereigns and much Egyptian jewelry gold historically circulating in the region.
Hatshepsut ruled as pharaoh for roughly twenty years in the Eighteenth Dynasty, ca. 1479–1458 BC, and her mortuary temple at Deir el-Bahri held dozens of her seated statues, most of which were systematically smashed and buried — likely by Thutmose III late in his own reign.