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King Farouk's World Coin Collection
What would be the value of King Farouk's world currency collection in our time? An American magazine estimated the value of his collection of American coins, part of his extensive world currency collection, at 2.87 billion Egyptian pounds (US$160 million)! As is well known, the king was an avid collector…
June 2, 2022Egyptian currency of 1938 and the state of confusion
What Egyptian currencies were not issued in 1938, and why was there such political and economic turmoil during this period? Cairo – February 1937, where our story begins. At that time, the Ministry of Finance announced the minting of Egyptian currency in the name of His Majesty King Farouk I, and the news was conveyed to the Royal Court in preparation for authorizing the representative of the Mint in Birmingham to proceed with the minting…
April 9, 2022