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50 Pounds El-Karnak Temple
| Issuer | Egypt |
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| Year | 1994 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse script | Arabic, Latin |
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| Mintage | 1415 (1994) - Proof |
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Karnak's construction spanned roughly 2,000 years, with major phases under Thutmose III, Amenhotep III, and the Ramessid pharaohs — making it less a single monument than an accumulated political argument in stone. Egypt's gold commemorative program of the early 1990s drew heavily on pharaonic architecture at a moment when the government was aggressively positioning antiquity as a source of both tourism revenue and national identity.
The .900 fineness places this outside the older khedival gold standard. Mintages for this series were modest, with most pieces absorbed by the collector market rather than circulation.