Egypt 1980 pound KM-513
This specimen was lot 74380 in Stack's Bowers May 2026 World Premier Collectors Choice Auction (Costa Mesa, CA, May 2026), where it sold for $129. The catalog description[1] noted, "EGYPT. Pound, AH 1400/1980. Cairo Mint. NGC PROOF-69 Ultra Cameo." Other one pound NCLT's for 1980 included KM 508 (peace treaty, silver), KM 509 (peace treaty, gold), KM 510 (applied professions), KM 511 (doctor's day), KM 514, KM 515, KM 516. This one honors the F.A.O. and rural women in Egypt. Depicted is a farm girl reading. The design was also used on an aluminum bronze ten milliemes (KM 499) and a copper-nickel ten qirsh (KM 505).
Recorded mintage: 97,000 plus 3,000 proofs.
Specification: 15 g, 0.720 fine silver, 35 mm diameter.
Catalog reference: KM-513.
- 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, May 2026 World Premier Collectors Choice Online Auction - Ancients, World Coins & World Paper Money, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers Galleries, Inc., 2026.
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- AH 1399/1979 pound, F.A.O./International Year of the Child
- AH 1399/1979 pound, National Education Day
- AH 1399/1979 gold pound, Land Reform
- AH 1400/1980 10 piastres, Doctor's Day
- AH 1400/1980 silver pound, Egypt-Israel Peace Treaty
- AH 1400/1980 gold pound, Egypt-Israel Peace Treaty
- AH 1400/1980 pound, applied professions
- AH 1400/1980 pound, Doctor's Day
- AH 1400/1980 5 pounds, Egypt-Israel Peace Treaty
- AH 1400/1980 10 pounds, Egypt-Israel Peace Treaty
- AH 1401/1981 gold pound, 3rd anniversary of the reopening of the Suez Canal
- AH 1402/1981 gold pound, centennial of the revolt of Arabi Pasha
- Coins and currency dated 1980