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A gang that forged postage stamps was arrested.
The police successfully apprehended a dangerous gang specializing in forging rare postage stamps. In 1921 (translator's note: the conference and stamps were issued in 1926), the International Navigation Conference was held in Cairo. At that time, the Egyptian Postal Authority issued a new set of stamps in denominations of 5, 10, and 15 milliemes. Despite the sale of a large number of these sets, the quantity...
May 16, 2023Egyptian 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, 2022The truth about the Egyptian half millieme, issue of 1916
Is there an Egyptian half-millime coin issued in 1916? Information about numismatics sometimes comes to mind quickly, and one such piece of information is the issuance of a half-millime coin by the Sultanate of Egypt in 1916. But what is the truth about this bronze coin? Let's travel back in time and place, specifically to India in 1916, where the mints in Bombay and Calcutta were at their peak…
July 3, 2021From the records of Egyptian currency documents
From the records of Egyptian currency documents, a letter dated November 12, 1924 – Subject: Design of the (new) half-millime coin for His Majesty King Fuad I. Your Excellency, with reference to the half-millime coin to be issued by the Mint in Birmingham at the request of the Egyptian government, I wish to inform Your Excellency that the minting dies are currently being prepared. Accordingly, enclosed for your information is a general design plan for these coins…
November 5, 2019