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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;willieboyd2, post: 2462269, member: 4910&quot;]I have had this little item since the 1960&#039;s:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.brianrxm.com/posts/post_egypt_p50_1930.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Egypt 50 Piastres 1930 (AH 1349)</p><p>Gold, 20mm, 4.25gm, Krause <i>World Coins</i> KM-353</p><p>About the size of a US $2-1/2 gold piece</p><p><br /></p><p>This nice little item came recently.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.brianrxm.com/posts/post_egypt_p100_1922.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Egypt 100 Piastres 1922 (AH 1340)</p><p>Gold, 24mm, 8.48gm, Krause <i>World Coins</i> KM-341</p><p>About the size of a US $5 gold piece</p><p><br /></p><p>King Fuad was King of Egypt from 1922 to 1936, and was the father of the more famous King Farouk.</p><p><br /></p><p>From King Farouk&#039;s Memoirs, Al Arabiya News:</p><p><br /></p><p>One of the characteristics that Farouk did acquire was his father’s love of practical jokes.</p><p><br /></p><p><i>Fuad would sometimes humor himself by placing a gold coin in a bucket of clear acid and watching unsuspecting servants scream in agony from the resulting acid burns after trying to retrieve its contents, according to Roger Owen, a Middle East history professor at Harvard University.</i></p><p><br /></p><p>Fortunately, gold is impervious to most acids.</p><p><br /></p><p>King Fuad was not the most famous Egyptian king in 1922 as that honor belonged to the Pharoah Tutankhamun or &quot;King Tut&quot; whose tomb was discovered that year.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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