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  • 1 Pound 2020, Egypt, Egyptian Society of Engineers, 100th Anniversary
  • 1 Pound 2020, Egypt, Egyptian Society of Engineers, 100th Anniversary
Description

In the year 1919 the word of the first Egyptian engineers agreed to establish a recognized body to promote engineering sciences that represented them and worked to publish their investigations, provide them with technical information, promote their literary position, and raise the status of the engineering profession, and the Egyptian Society of Engineers was the one that developed a basic law that it extracted from the laws of several societies abroad, On December 3, 1920, the first meeting of the board of directors of this association was held, and this day was considered the date of the establishment of the association, and in that session, the association law was approved and the board of directors formed from a president and two agents and 12 members, and on December 1, 1922, the assembly obtained government recognition by a decree. Royal, issued by the adoption of the statutory law of the Egyptian Royal Society of Engineers, and to be covered by the government with its high sponsorship, and the number of members gradually increased, after it was 40 at the time of establishment when the government recognized it, it reached a hundred members, and then it became about five thousand members.

Obverse

Depicts a statue of Imhotep with his name and the date 2780 B.C. (the date of building the pyramid of Djoser) on its base (the logo of the Egyptian Society of Engineers) left and an engineering ruler with the inscription "Engineering is the art of Eternity" below (symbol of the Egyptian engineers), surrounded by the inscription "Egyptian Society of Engineers" above and "Date of establishment 1920" below.

Imhotep (Ancient Egyptian: "the one who comes in peace", fl. late 27th century BCE) was an Egyptian chancellor to the Pharaoh Djoser, probable architect of Djoser's step pyramid, and high priest of the sun god Ra at Heliopolis. Traditions from long after Imhotep's death treated him as a great author of wisdom texts and especially as a physician. The first references to the healing abilities of Imhotep occur from the Thirtieth Dynasty (c. 380–343 BCE) onward, some 2,200 years after his death.

جمعية المهندسين المصريه
الهندسة فن الخلود
امحتب ٢٧٨۰ ق مـ
تاسست سنة ١٩٢٠

Reverse

Calligraphic art state name "Arab Republic of Egypt" divided dates (Hegira and Gregorian) and denomination above.

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جنيه
جمهورية مصر العربية
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Edge
Characteristics
Type Trial strike
Material Copper
Weight -
Diameter 24 mm
Thickness -
Shape round
Alignment Medal
Mint
Cairo Mint

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