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5 Pounds Tutankhamen and wife
| Issuer | Egypt |
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| Year | 1994 |
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| Value | 5 Pounds |
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| Obverse description | Central device depicting a stylized ancient Egyptian vulture (nekhbet) with wings spread wide, rendered in the pharaonic decorative style, occupying the lower half of the field. Above the vulture, the bilingual country name legend appears in two lines in Arabic script, flanked by the denomination '5 LE' to the left and its Arabic numeral equivalent to the right. The abbreviation 'A·R·E' (Arab Republic of Egypt) is inscribed in the mid-field between the legend and the bird. Dual dates appear along the lower periphery in both Western (1994) and Hijri (1415) numerals in Latin and Arabic script respectively. The mint mark 'E' over 'CC' appears at the bottom of the field below the vulture. |
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| Reverse description | High-relief proof composition depicting Tutankhamen seated on his ornate throne to the right, dressed in elaborate pharaonic regalia including a pectoral collar and pleated linen kilt, with his queen Ankhesenamun standing before him to the left, wearing a tall composite crown and flowing robes. The queen extends her hand toward the pharaoh in an intimate gesture of anointing, closely derived from the famous golden shrine scene discovered in Tutankhamen's tomb. Both figures are rendered in a refined ancient Egyptian artistic convention, with detailed hieratic ornamentation. The polished proof field provides strong contrast to the finely engraved figures. No legends or inscriptions appear on the reverse. |
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Egypt's commemorative silver program in the 1990s was tied closely to the sustained international fascination following Howard Carter's 1922 discovery of KV62 — a tomb so intact that its contents required a decade to fully catalog and remove. This piece was issued roughly seventy years after that discovery, at a moment when Egyptological tourism was a principal driver of foreign currency revenue for the Mubarak government.
The specific scene depicted here derives from a gilded wooden shrine found within the tomb, one of the most reproduced images in modern Egyptology.