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This exchange value of 97.5 piastres to the pound sterling continued until the early 1960s when Egypt devalued slightly and switched to a peg to the United States dollar, at a rate of E£1 = US$2.3. The Egyptian pound was also used in Anglo-Egyptian Sudan between 1899 and 1956, and Cyrenaica when it was under British occupation and later an ...
The British one pound ( £1) coin is a denomination of sterling coinage. Its obverse bears the Latin engraving ELIZABETH II D G REG ( Dei Gratia Regina) F D ( Fidei defensor) meaning, 'Elizabeth II, by the grace of God, Queen, Defender of the Faith '. [1] [2] It has featured the profile of Queen Elizabeth II since the original coin's ...
From earliest Sumerian times, a mina was a unit of weight. At first, talents and shekels had not yet been introduced. By the time of Ur-Nammu (shortly before 2000 BCE), the mina had a value of 60 talent as well as 60 shekels. The weight of this mina is calculated at 1.25 pounds (0.57 kg), or 570 grams of silver (18 troy ounces).
The weighing stone was uncovered in an archaeological context from Second Dynasty, in the so-called "labyrinth" building, it bears the inscription of the "friendly is the heart of Horus, director" (of the installation) "Hemsemenib". The inscribed value is of 3 deben, representing a unit of 29 grams (1.0 oz), likely the earliest copper deben. [2]
The Ptolemaic dynasty introduced standard coinage to Egypt, where pre-existing native dynasties made only very limited use of coins. Egyptian gold stater was the first coin ever minted in ancient Egypt around 360 BC during the reign of pharaoh Teos of the 30th Dynasty. These coins were used to pay salaries of Greek mercenaries in his service.
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Image of 10 Egyptian piastres (currently valueless, thus absent from circulation) A 100-piastre note from French Indochina, circa 1954 French Indochina piastre, 1885. The piastre or piaster (English: / p i ˈ æ s t ər /) is any of a number of units of currency. The term originates from the Italian for "thin metal plate".
Farouk I (⫽ f ə ˈ r uː k ⫽; Egyptian Arabic: فاروق الأول Fārūq al-Awwal; 11 February 1920 – 18 March 1965) was the tenth ruler of Egypt from the Muhammad Ali dynasty and the penultimate King of Egypt and the Sudan, succeeding his father, Fuad I, in 1936 and reigning until his overthrow in a military coup in 1952.