100 Pounds Supreme Judicial Council

Egypt's Supreme Judicial Council, founded in 1969 under Nasser's restructuring of the judiciary, became the constitutional body overseeing judicial appointments and discipline — a role that placed it at the center of repeated confrontations between the bench and executive power throughout the Mubarak years. This coin was issued just as those tensions were accelerating, with judges openly challenging electoral fraud findings in 2005 having set off a years-long standoff. The .720 silver specification places it firmly in Egypt's commemorative coinage program of that decade, which consistently used sub-sterling alloys for domestic-market issues.