5 Pounds (Cairo Opera House)
Egypt • 5 Pounds • Gold (.875) • 1988
- Denomination
- 5 Pounds
- Issuer
- Egypt
- Struck
- 1988
- Composition
- Gold (.875)
- Currency
- Pound
- Weight
- 26 g
- Catalog refs
- KM 655 · Fr 214 · MHC 1433
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Where it came from
The 1988 Egyptian 5 Pound coin was minted to commemorate the official inauguration of the Cairo Opera House, a centerpiece of the National Cultural Centre complex. Funded by a grant from the Japanese government and designed to replace the original 19th-century Khedivial Opera House that was destroyed by fire in 1971, the new facility was intended to serve as a beacon of modern Egyptian cultural diplomacy and arts education.
The coin features imagery representative of the site's architectural significance and its role in hosting international performances. As a commemorative issue, it was produced to celebrate the collaboration between Egypt and Japan in the arts sector. While it was widely distributed among numismatists as a high-denomination specimen, its design reflects the solemn and monumental aesthetic common to Egyptian commemorative coinage of the late 20th century.
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