Egypt 1929-BP 1/2 millieme

Stack's Bowers November 2025 Collectors Choice sale, lot 76559

This specimen was lot 76559 in Stack's Bowers Collectors Choice sale (Costa Mesa, CA, November 2025), where it sold for $125. The catalog description^[1] noted, "EGYPT. 1/2 Millieme, AH 1348/1929-BP. Budapest Mint. Fuad I. NGC MS-64 Brown." This type was struck in 1929 in Budapest and in 1932 in Birmingham. The two dates are priced the same. The other denominations of 1929 (one, two, five and ten milliemes and two, five, ten and twenty piastres) were likely produced under the same contract.

Recorded mintage: 1,000,000.

Specification: 3.3 g, bronze, 20 mm diameter.

Catalog reference: KM-343.

Source:

• Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1901-2000, 47th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
• ^[1]Orsini, Matt, Kyle Ponterio and Jeremy Bostwick, November 2025 World Collectors Choice Online Auction, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers Galleries, Inc., 2025.

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