50 Qirsh / Piastres National Roads Network

Egypt's National Roads Network program, launched under President el-Sisi, became one of the most aggressively publicized infrastructure campaigns in the country's modern history, with the government claiming to have added thousands of kilometers of new roads between 2014 and 2019. Commemorative circulation coinage tied to specific domestic infrastructure projects is relatively unusual for the Central Bank of Egypt, making this series a departure from their standard commemorative practice.

Brass clad steel replaced solid brass in Egyptian coinage during this period largely as a cost-containment measure following the 2016 IMF-backed currency float, which halved the pound's value almost overnight.