1 Pound Egyptian Trade Unions

Issued to commemorate the Egyptian Trade Union Federation, this pound belongs to a broader series of Egyptian commemoratives produced through the 1990s under the authority of the Central Bank of Egypt. The Federation itself, founded in 1957 under Nasser, was never an independent labor body in any meaningful sense — it functioned as a state-controlled apparatus for managing workforce policy rather than advocating for workers.

The .720 silver fineness places it below sterling, a specification Egypt used consistently for commemorative issues of this period to keep production costs contained.