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1 Pound National Planning Institute, Gold issue
| Issuer | Egypt |
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| Year | 1985 |
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| Value | 1 Pound |
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| Obverse lettering | جنيه واحد جمهورية مصر العربية ١٤٠٥ ١٩٨٥ (Translation: One Pound Arab Republic of Egypt 1985 1405) |
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| Reverse script | Arabic |
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Egypt's National Planning Institute was established in 1960 under Nasser as part of the broader push toward state-directed economic development, but by 1985 the institution it commemorates had become increasingly marginal — Sadat's infitah policies of the 1970s had already shifted Egypt away from centralized planning toward market liberalization. Issuing a gold commemorative for a planning body in the middle of an IMF-pressured reform period has a certain irony to it.
Struck at .875 fineness rather than the more common .900 gold standard, placing it in the same alloy class as British sovereigns of the period.