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1 Pound The Prophet's Mosque
| Issuer | Egypt |
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| Year | 1985 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
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| Reverse lettering | وَمَا آتَاكُمُ الرَّسُولُ فَخُذُوهُ وَمَا نَهَاكُمْ عَنْهُ فَانْتَهُوا (Translation: `... And whatever the Messenger has given you - take; and what he has forbidden you - refrain from...`) |
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Issued as part of Egypt's long-running Islamic Architecture gold series, this piece commemorates Al-Masjid an-Nabawi in Medina — a site under Saudi administration, which made Egyptian state coinage honoring it a minor but deliberate gesture of pan-Islamic solidarity during a period when Egypt was still diplomatically isolated following the Camp David Accords.