Egypt 5 Pounds 2001

History

5 Pounds 2001, KM# 931, Egypt, National Council for Women in Egypt

Obverse. Photo © NumisBids

Description

The National Council for Women in Egypt (NCW) is an Egyptian National Council. It is the only national independent women machinery in Egypt. The council is responsible for ensuring that Egyptian women are treated on equal footing with men in terms of political, economic, social and cultural rights. The council shall also ill seek to reinforce women’s rights in line with the constitution and international conventions signed by Egypt.

Obverse	Art (sculpture, painting etc.) Sculpture Legendary creature (dragon, unicorn etc.) Sphinx People (man, woman, child etc.) Woman Depicts the logo of the National Council for Women in Egypt, inscriptions "Women Day" above, "National Council for Women" and date 16 March below. The logo depicts the Egyptian Renaissance sculpture in granite by Mahmoud Mukhtar (1919–1928, Giza) and shows Sphinx and a woman raising up her veil. The Sphinx represents antiquity and the woman is the symbol of an awakened Egypt. The figure of the woman was a reference to the Egyptian women's movement led by Huda Sha'arawi, who decided to go unveiled in 1922 and had organized anti-British demonstrations. عيد المرأة المجلس القومى المراة ١٦ مارس
Reverse	Denomination divides dates (Gregorian and Hegira), Kufic legend "Arab Republic of Egypt" above. جمهورية مصر العربية ٥ جنيهات ١٤٢١هـ ٢٠٠١ م
Edge	Reeded (milled)