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50 Pounds Ox Wrestling
| Issuer | Central Bank of Egypt |
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| Year | 1992 |
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| Weight | 8.5 g |
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| Obverse script | Arabic, Latin |
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| Reverse description | Central scene depicting an ancient Egyptian ox-wrestling motif derived from pharaonic tomb reliefs, showing multiple male figures in profile subduing a bull: one athlete pulls the animal forward by a rope, while others grapple with its hindquarters and body in a frieze-like composition. An Olympic torch with a flame rises above the scene at the top of the field. The Arabic legend 'الألعاب الأولمبية ٢٥' ('The 25th Olympic Games') appears to the upper left, with 'برشلونه' (Barcelona) and the Arabic numeral date '١٩٩٢' inscribed below the central scene. A segmented border frames the entire design. |
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Egypt's commemorative gold program of the early 1990s drew heavily on pharaonic athletic traditions, and ox wrestling — depicted across temple reliefs at Medinet Habu and elsewhere — was a specific ritual sport associated with royal jubilee festivals, the Heb-Sed. The Central Bank issued this piece as part of a broader series tying modern Egypt to its ancient ceremonial past, a project that accelerated under the cultural policies of the Mubarak period.
The .900 fineness places it in the older continental gold standard rather than the .9999 now common in bullion issues — a deliberate choice for collector coinage of this type from Egyptian mints in this decade.