Egypt

Egypt 1 Pound 2004 UNC
Front Design: Qaitbay Mosque(1472 and 1474 AD) *The Funerary Complex of Sultan al-Ashraf Qaytbay (Qaitbay)In the Northern Cemetery by Ismail Abaza*
Back Design: Abu Simbel temple in Aswan

Egypt

Egypt 25 Piasters
Front Design: Quraysh Hawk the official symbol of Egypt
Back Design: Mosque of umm-al-mu'minin Aisha

Egypt

Egypt 10 Piastres 1998 UNC
Front Design: The Saladin Citadel of Cairo (Muhammad Ali Mosque Citadel)
Back Design: The Great Sphinx and pyramids at Giza, Watermark: The statue of Tutankhamun

Mask of Tutankhamun's mummy, the popular icon for ancient Egypt at The Egyptian Museum.

The Great Sphinx of Giza, Egypt
The Great Sphinx of Giza is a half-human, half-lion Sphinx statue in Egypt, on the Giza Plateau at the west bank of the Nile River, near modern-day Cairo. The largest monolith statue in the world, it stands 73.5 metres (241 ft) long, 6 m (20 ft) wide, and 20 m (65 ft) high.

The Saladin Citadel of Cairo is one of the most popular tourist attractions of Cairo, Egypt.
The location, part of the Muqattam hill near the center of Cairo, was once famous for its fresh breeze and grand views of the city, and was fortified by the Ayyubid ruler Salah al-Din (Saladin) between 1176 and 1183 AD, to protect it from the Crusaders.
It is sometimes referred to as Mohamed Ali Citadel , because it contains the Mosque of Mohamed Ali (or Muhammad Ali Pasha), which was built between 1828 and 1848, perched on the summit of the citadel. This Ottoman mosque was built in memory of Tusun Pasha, Muhammad Ali's oldest son, who died in 1816.
The citadel stopped being the seat of government when Egypt's ruler, Khedive Ismail, moved to his newly built Abdin Palace in the Ismailiya neighborhood in the 1860s.
There are two other mosques at the Citadel, the 13th/14th c. hypostyle Mosque of al-Nasir Muhammad from the early Bahri Mamluk period, and the 16th c. Mosque of Suleyman Pasha, first of the Citadel's Ottoman-style mosques. The citadel also contains Al-Gawhara Palace, the National Military Museum and the Police Museum.

Cairo Citadel at night

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Ramesses II: one of four external seated statues at Abu Simbel

Al-Azhar, photo of the old Mosque. Cairo, Egypt

Egypt 50 Piastres 07.06.1995 (1995 - 2002) UNC
Front Design: Al-Azhar Mosque
Back Design: Statue of Ramsis II (Ramses II), multi-colored ornamental,
band and a collection of lotus flowers and the sun boat, Pharaonic cartouche, left: drawing taken from the facade of a Pharaonic temple.

The Mosque of Abu Haggag is a mosque located in the Egyptian city of Luxor. Specifically, it stands atop the ruins of Luxor Temple, an Ancient Egyptian centre of worship dating back to the reign of Pharaoh Amenhotep III in the 14th century BC.

Although its positioning atop the pharaonic columns seems both precarious and invasive, the Mosque of Abu Haggag (or Abu l-Haggag) must be seen as more than just a coincidental intruder. First, when the mosque was built, large parts of the temple was covered with earth. Secondly, it is not uncommon for a religious kinship between ancient Egyptian cult places and the local version of popular Islam to be recreated. At least, when the pharaonic temple was unearthed in the late 19th century, locals fiercely resisted any attempt to tear down the mosque. For them, the geographical position was important, and a new mosque also dedicated to Abu Haggag has never become very popular.

Abu Haggag was a Sufi shaykh, born in Baghdad, but he spent the latter half of his 90years in Luxor. He died here in 1243, but it is believed that the minaret is older than him, dating back to the 11th century. The mosque itself has been rebuilt many times, and completely in the 19th century. Abu Haggag is Luxor's main saint, and his mosque is the core of local religious activities. Locals believe that his mosque is a particularly important religious spot, full of baraka, divine blessing.

Egypt

Egypt 5 Piastres 1940 UNC
Front Design: Queen Nefertiti
Nefertiti is a great royal wife of Egyptian Pharaoh Akhenaten. Only believed in one god where else she and her husband egypt's religious from polytheistic to a monotheistic. For her long swan like neck and beauty she was know throughout Egypt.
Back Design: Guilloches

Egypt

Egypt, capital cairo and population of 68,470,00 one of the world's greatest early civilizations, arose in northern Africa 5,000 years ago. In the seventh century the Arabs conquered northern Africa and converted its people to Islam. The piastre was the currency of Egypt until 1834. The piastre was based on the Turkish kuruş, introduced while Egypt was part of the Ottoman Empire. As in Turkey, debasement lead to the piastre falling significantly in value. In 1834, the pound, or gineih (Arabic) was introduced as the chief unit of currency, worth 100 piastre. The piastre continues in use to the present day as a subdivision of the pound.

Egypt 25 Piasters
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