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1 Pound 4th FIFA World Youth Championship
| Issuer | Central Bank of Egypt |
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| Year | 1997 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse lettering | جنيه ١ جمهورية مصر العربية ١٤١٨ - ١٩٩٧ A.R.E Cairo 1418 - 1997 (Translation: 1 Pound Arab Republic of Egypt) |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Egypt hosted the 1997 FIFA World Youth Championship — the under-20 tournament — across several cities including Cairo and Alexandria that June. The tournament is best remembered for the emergence of Celestine Babayaro's Nigeria side, who won the final against Spain. Egypt issued commemorative coins for the event under a broader pattern of silver issues tied to international sporting occasions, a practice the Central Bank had been following since the 1980s. The .720 fineness is notably below sterling — a composition Egypt used repeatedly for mid-tier commemoratives rather than reserving finer silver for sports issues.