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5 Milliemes - Hussein Kamel
| Issuer | Egypt |
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| Year | 1916-1917 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Central round hole flanked by bilingual inscriptions in Arabic and Western numerals. The legend reads 'Hussein Kamil, Sultan of Egypt' in Arabic script, with the Western year date (1916 or 1917) appearing alongside the Islamic Hijri year 1335. All obverses bear the accession date 1333 AH rendered in Eastern Arabic numerals. The inscriptions are arranged in a formal, symmetrical layout within the coin's circular field. |
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| Obverse lettering | حسين كامل 1917 ١٣٣٥ سلطان مصر ۱۳۳۳ (Translation: Hussein Kamil 1917 1335 Sultan of Egypt 1333) |
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Hussein Kamel was installed as Sultan of Egypt by the British in December 1914, days after they declared a protectorate and severed Egypt's last formal ties to the Ottoman Empire. The sultanate itself was a constitutional fiction — a way to sidestep the awkwardness of a nominally Ottoman territory fighting on the Allied side. These coins, issued in his name, were among the first to drop Ottoman imperial imagery from Egyptian coinage entirely.
Hussein Kamel died in office in October 1917, having reigned less than three years.