Depicts god Hapi, shown as an iconographic pair of genii with many of holographic letters between them.

Starting around the 19th dynasty, Egyptian painters and artists depicted Hapi as two identical people. In both hands they wielded two plants – representation of Lower and Upper Egypt. The two figures can be seen tying those two plants together. Hapi was therefore seen as a deity who united the two Egypts so to speak. Such depictions of him appeared in the tombs or on the statues of the pharaohs.

Stylized state name (Arab Republic of Egypt) divides denomination in Arabic and English and abbreviation of state name (A.R.E.) below, the date in Arabic (Hijri) and Western (Georgian) divides by a vulture with open wings. Engraver's initials (ECC) below.

In Ancient Egypt, the vulture hieroglyph was the uniliteral sign used for the glottal sound (/ɑː/). The bird was held sacred to Isis in ancient Egyptian religion. The use of the vulture as a symbol of royalty in Egyptian culture and their protection by Pharaonic law made the species common on the streets of Egypt and gave rise to the name "pharaoh's chicken".