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5 Pounds Newly Populated Areas Organization
| Issuer | Central Bank of Egypt |
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| Year | 1990 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
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| Mint | Egyptian Mint, Cairo |
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Issued to promote Egypt's desert resettlement initiative, a policy aimed at redistributing population pressure away from the Nile Delta and Valley — where over 95% of Egyptians lived on roughly 4% of the country's land. The program had roots in Nasser-era planning but gained renewed urgency under Mubarak as urban crowding in Cairo and Alexandria became politically untenable.
The .720 silver composition places it among Egypt's mid-tier commemorative issues of the period, struck for collector sale rather than circulation.