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50 Qirsh - Farouk Royal Wedding
| Issuer | Egypt |
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| Year | 1938 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Reverse script | Arabic |
| Reverse lettering | ٥٠ قرشا المملكة المصرية ١٣٥٧ - ١٩٣٨ (Translation: 50 Piastres Kingdom of Egypt 1938 - 1357) |
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Struck to commemorate the 1938 marriage of King Farouk I to Safinaz Zulficar, who took the name Farida upon conversion to a more traditionally Egyptian identity at Farouk's insistence. The wedding itself was a calculated piece of public theatre — Farouk was only 18 and had ascended the throne just the previous year following his father Fuad I's death, and the palace needed the optics of dynastic continuity badly.
The .875 fineness places this squarely in the Egyptian gold coinage tradition inherited from the late Ottoman monetary framework. Mintage was limited by commemorative-issue conventions of the period.