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5 Pounds Reopening of Suez Canal
| Issuer | Egypt |
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| Year | 1976 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse lettering | جمهورية مصر العربية خمسة جنيهات ١٣٩٦ ١٩٧٦ (Translation: Arab Republic of Egypt Five Pounds 1396 1976) |
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| Reverse script | Arabic |
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Egypt issued this coin to mark the reopening of the Suez Canal in June 1975, nearly eight years after it was closed following the catastrophic defeat of the Six-Day War in June 1967. The Canal had sat unusable — blocked by sunken vessels, live ordnance, and the political deadlock of the War of Attrition — until a joint Egyptian-American clearance operation finally reopened it to shipping. Sadat framed the reopening as a national resurrection, staging the ceremony personally aboard a destroyer.
The coin itself was struck the following year, at .875 fineness — a standard inherited from earlier Egyptian commemorative gold issues rather than the .900 fine used by most contemporary sovereign coinage.