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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;wlwhittier, post: 1727358, member: 18320&quot;]<b>1937 KINGDOM of EGYPT King Farouk Silver 2 Piastres</b></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH]269095.vB[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]269096.vB[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>~19.02mm; 2.7gm; reeded edge.</p><p><br /></p><p>Reverse orientation is a question; if 1937 is correct, he is depicted at the tender age of 17 or 18.</p><p><br /></p><p>I remember Farouk; he was widely photographed after 1952, mostly in trunks, dark glasses and a Fez, around a hotel pool, flocked by women half his age or less, and he was a...LARGE man.</p><p><br /></p><p>As a boy, I never could reconcile the other prominent Monarchs of the time (Ethiopia&#039;s Selassie, England&#039;s George VI, etc.) with the image of Farouk, the fat playboy; No gravitas, probably.</p><p><br /></p><p>Again, poor color; it is white silver.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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