10 Qirsh Corrective Revolution

The "Corrective Revolution" designation commemorates Anwar Sadat's bloodless internal coup of May 1971, in which he purged the leftist faction of the Arab Socialist Union — allies of the Soviet-backed Nasserist old guard — and consolidated power under his own more pragmatic, eventually pro-Western alignment. Egypt was reorienting its entire foreign policy during the years this coin circulated, culminating in the 1978 Camp David Accords. Sadat signed a peace treaty with Israel the year this series concluded.