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5 Pounds King Taharqa
| Issuer | Egypt |
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| Year | 1994 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse description | A spread-winged vulture displayed at center, rendered in the ancient Egyptian style with detailed feather work and talons flanking a central body, occupying the lower half of the field. The Arabic legend جمهورية مصر العربية (Arabic Republic of Egypt) arcs across the upper field, surmounted by a stylized lotus flower motif at the top. The initials A·R·E appear in the central field above the vulture. The denomination 5 LE in Latin script and ٥ جـ in Arabic numerals flank the legend on the left and right respectively, while the dual dates 1994 / ١٩٩٤ (Gregorian) and 1415 / ١٤١٥ (Hijri) appear at the lower left and lower right. Mint marks E and CC are inscribed in the exergue below the vulture. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Taharqa ruled as pharaoh from roughly 690 to 664 BC, the last of the great Kushite kings to control Egypt before Assyrian campaigns under Esarhaddon and later Ashurbanipal drove the Twenty-Fifth Dynasty permanently back into Nubia. Egypt's decision to commemorate him in 1994 was part of a broader series celebrating ancient rulers — an acknowledgment, however belated, of a king whose reign the Assyrian records describe as a persistent military thorn, and whom the Hebrew Bible references as an ally of Hezekiah against Sennacherib.