5 Pounds King Taharqa

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.