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10 Milliemes - Farouk
| Issuer | Egypt |
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| Year | 1938-1941 |
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| Diameter | 23 mm |
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| Reverse script | Arabic |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Farouk I ascended the Egyptian throne in 1936 at age sixteen following his father Fuad I's death, and these milliemes were among the first coinage issued under his name. The timing placed their production squarely within the early years of World War II, when Egypt's strategic position made it a focal point of both British military pressure and Axis ambition — the country nominally neutral yet hosting hundreds of thousands of Allied troops by 1940.
British influence over the Royal Mint Advisory Committee had shaped Egyptian coinage decisions for decades prior, a dynamic Farouk would spend much of his reign resisting.