1 Pound National Women's Council

The National Council for Women was established by presidential decree in February 2000, created under the patronage of Suzanne Mubarak as a quasi-governmental body intended to consolidate women's policy advocacy within a single state-controlled institution. This coin was issued the following year to mark that founding. Egypt's commemorative pound series of this period routinely used .720 silver at 15 grams — a specification carried over from earlier decades that kept production costs manageable while retaining a silver content meaningful enough to justify collector pricing.