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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;pragmatic, post: 2790647, member: 88312&quot;]A New Concept thread about coins (and medals and tokens) with a theme of a ruler (King, queen, president, sultan,...etc) who was either assassinated or exiled.</p><p>To make the thread fruitful and informative, a wee wiki-like information on the incident would be a snap, in addition to the coin information itself <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>I start with a local coin))</p><p><br /></p><p><font size="6"><b>Egypt 10 piastres 1980 (Hijri Year 1400) Commemorative; &quot;Egyptian - Israeli Peace Treaty&quot;</b></font></p><p><font size="6"><br /></font></p><p><font size="6">Obverse: President Mohammed Anwar As-sadat + Peace Dove - 26 March, 1979. Peace Treaty Commemorative ذكرى توقيع اتفاقية السلام - zekra tawqee&#039; etefaaqeyyet as-salam.</font></p><p><font size="6">[ATTACH=full]648079[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]648080[/ATTACH] </font></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Muhammed Anwar Al Sadatwas the third President of Egypt, serving from 15 October 1970 until his assassination by fundamentalist army officers on 6 October 1981.</p><p><br /></p><p>On 6 October 1981, Sadat was assassinated during the annual victory parade held in Cairo to celebrate Egypt&#039;s crossing of the Suez Canal. Islambouli emptied his assault rifle into Sadat&#039;s body while in the front of the grandstand, mortally wounding the President. In addition to Sadat, eleven others were killed, including the Cuban ambassador, an Omani general, a Coptic Orthodox bishop and Samir Helmy, the head of Egypt&#039;s Central Auditing Agency (CAA). Twenty-eight were wounded, including Vice President Hosni Mubarak, Irish Defence Minister James Tully, and four US military liaison officers.</p><p><br /></p><p>The assassination squad was led by Lieutenant Khalid Islambouli after a fatwā approving the assassination had been obtained from Omar Abdel-Rahman. Islambouli was tried, found guilty, sentenced to death, and executed by firing squad in April 1982.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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