Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
5 Pounds UNESCO
| Issuer | Central Bank of Egypt |
|---|---|
| Year | 2006 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Weight | 17.5 g |
| Diameter | Log in to see details |
| Thickness | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Technique | Log in to see details |
| Orientation | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Log in to see details |
|---|---|
| Obverse script | Log in to see details |
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | The UNESCO temple logo — a stylized classical portico with colonnade and pediment — occupies the center of the field, with the inscription UNESCO incorporated within the architectural motif. The large numeral 60 appears prominently above the logo, denoting the organization's sixtieth anniversary. The founding year 1945 and anniversary year 2005 flank the base of the logo in the lower center field. The full Arabic name of the organization, منظمة الأمم المتحدة للتربية والعلم والثقافة, curves along the lower periphery, and the design is framed by a beaded inner border. |
| Reverse script | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | 60 UNESCO 1945 2005 منظمة الأمم المتحدة للتربية والعلم والثقافة (Translation: United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) |
| Edge | Log in to see details |
| Mint | Log in to see details |
| Mintage | Log in to see details |
| Additional information |
Egypt's UNESCO-themed commemorative program ran through the 1990s and 2000s, tied loosely to the country's ongoing relationship with the organization dating back to the 1960s Nubian monuments campaign — the internationally funded effort to relocate Abu Simbel and other sites before the Aswan High Dam flooded the region. That salvage operation remains one of UNESCO's most cited interventions, and Egypt periodically returned to it as commemorative subject matter across multiple coin series.
KM#978 is among the later issues in this run, struck in .720 silver rather than the finer alloys used in earlier Egyptian commemoratives.