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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;EgCollector, post: 810112, member: 15538&quot;]Syria </p><p>KM#98</p><p>Nickel</p><p>Mintage; 10,000,000</p><p>Obverse; &quot;Arab Republic of Syria&quot; &quot;1 Lira (Pound)&quot; 1968-1387AH</p><p>Reverse; &quot;Arab Republic of Syria&quot; and The Hawk of Quraish with three stars.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The <span style="color: red">Quraishi hawk</span>, used today in the coats of arms of Yemen, Syria and the UAE, was also used by the <a href="http://www.cointalk.com/wiki/Quraish" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.cointalk.com/wiki/Quraish"><span style="color: #002bb8">Quraish</span></a> tribe, the strongest in Arabia. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>political union (1958-61) of <a href="http://www.cointalk.com/topic/egypt" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.cointalk.com/topic/egypt"><span style="color: #003399">Egypt</span></a> and <a href="http://www.cointalk.com/topic/syria" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.cointalk.com/topic/syria"><span style="color: #003399">Syria</span></a>. The capital was Cairo. The two countries were merged (1958) into a single unit comprising the Southern (Egypt) and the Northern (<span style="color: black">Syria</span>) Regions, with Gamal Abdal <a href="http://www.cointalk.com/topic/gamal-abdel-nasser" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.cointalk.com/topic/gamal-abdel-nasser"><span style="color: #003399">Nasser</span></a> as president. As an initial step toward creating a pan-Arab union, the republic abolished Syrian and Egyptian citizenship, termed its inhabitants Arabs, and called the country &quot;Arab territory.&quot; It considered the Arab homeland to be the entire area between the Persian Gulf and the Atlantic coast. With Yemen (North Yemen), it formed (1958) a loose federation called the United Arab States. <span style="color: red">Hence the three stars.</span></p><p><br /></p><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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