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100 Pounds Ox Wrestling
| Issuer | Central Bank of Egypt |
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| Year | 1992 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse description | At center, the Egyptian state emblem — a circular cartouche bearing the Arabic legend of the Arab Republic of Egypt in naskh script — is flanked by a pair of outstretched wings rendered in high relief. Above the wings, the denomination appears in both Arabic-Indic numerals and Latin script ('100 LE'), accompanied by the abbreviation 'ARE'. The dual dates AH 1412 and AD 1992 are inscribed above in Arabic-Indic and Western numerals respectively. The Latin legend 'THE 25TH OLYMPIC GAMES 1992' arcs along the left and right fields, while a decorative segmented border frames the entire design. |
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| Reverse script | Arabic |
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Part of Egypt's broader cultural heritage series issued through the late 1980s and early 1990s, this piece commemorates an ancient rural sport still practiced in parts of the Nile Delta — ox wrestling, or a form of animal-strength competition rooted in pharaonic agricultural tradition. The Central Bank issued the series partly in response to IMF-era economic restructuring that demanded Egypt diversify hard currency earnings; numismatic exports were a calculable, if modest, contribution.
Mintages across the Egyptian gold cultural series were characteristically small, and distribution ran heavily through European numismatic dealers rather than domestic channels.