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5 Pounds Queen Nefertiti
| Issuer | Central Bank of Egypt |
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| Year | 1999 |
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| Value | 5 Pounds |
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| Reverse description | The reverse presents a bold, high-relief bust of Queen Nefertiti facing right, closely modelled after the celebrated painted limestone bust discovered at Amarna and now held in the Neues Museum, Berlin. The queen is depicted wearing her characteristic flat-topped blue crown with a broad diadem band decorated with a geometric pattern, and adorned with an ornate broad collar necklace at the truncation. The portrait occupies the majority of the field against a deeply mirrored proof background, with no legend or inscription, allowing the sculptural effigy to dominate. A continuous beaded border frames the design at the rim. |
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| Mintage | 1999 - Proof - 2,000 |
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Nefertiti's image had been largely absent from Egyptian state coinage for decades before this issue — her bust, excavated by a German team at Amarna in 1912 and controversially retained by Berlin's Neues Museum, has been the subject of a repatriation dispute between Egypt and Germany that was already well underway by 1999. Placing her on a domestic commemorative carried an unmistakable political dimension.
The .975 fineness is notably higher than the .925 standard common to most contemporary commemorative silver issues from the region.