5 Milliemes - Farouk

Farouk ascended the Egyptian throne in 1936 at age sixteen, and this issue spans the most turbulent stretch of his early reign — a period when Egypt nominally maintained sovereignty while British troops occupied the country under the 1936 Anglo-Egyptian Treaty. The 1943 date is particularly notable: North Africa was actively contested, and British military authorities exercised considerable influence over Egyptian economic policy, including pressure on the mint to maintain coinage supply for a wartime economy straining under occupation logistics.

The Royal Mint in London struck portions of this series when Cairo's output was insufficient — a detail the KM reference obscures.