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1 Pound Portland cement
| Issuer | Egypt |
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| Year | 1978 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse lettering | جمهىورية مصر العربيية جنيه واحد ١٣٩٨ ١٩٧٨ (Translation: Arab Republic of Egypt One Pound 1978 1398) |
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| Reverse script | Arabic |
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Issued to mark Egypt's push for industrial self-sufficiency in the late 1970s, this pound commemorates the Portland cement industry at a moment when the Sadat government was aggressively courting foreign investment and expanding domestic infrastructure following the economic isolation of the Nasser years. Egypt had been a cement producer since the early twentieth century, with the Helwan plant established in 1911 as one of the first large-scale industrial facilities in the country.
The .720 silver standard was Egypt's workhorse commemorative alloy through this period, used across dozens of issues in the series.