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5 Pounds Faculty of Science
| Issuer | Central Bank of Egypt |
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| Year | 2000 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
| Obverse lettering | جمهورية مصر العربية ٥ جنيهات ١٤٢٠ ـ ١٩٩٩ (Translation: Arab Republic of Egypt 5 Pounds 1999 - 1420) |
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Egypt's Faculty of Science commemorative series, issued through the late 1990s and into 2000, celebrated the centennial anniversaries of Cairo University's founding colleges. The Faculty of Science was established in 1925, making the commemorative logic somewhat loose — the university itself dates to 1908, and individual faculty centenaries were staggered across multiple issues, each with modest mintages absorbed largely by the domestic collector market rather than international buyers.
.720 fineness was Egypt's standard for commemorative silver of this period, slightly below the .925 used by most Western mints at the time.