Most of these 5 & 10 Piasters
are in reasonable Grade:
The 10
Piasters weights 14 grams, with 0.833 fineness of silver
In 1914 at the start of the First
World War Britain declared a Protectorate over Egypt and deposed the Khedive,
Abbas Hilmi II
and had him replaced by his nephew,
Hussein Kamel who was proclaimed Sultan of Egypt by the
British on the 19 December 1914.
This move was to insure the British
maintained a clear route to India via the Suez Canal.
The British minted Egyptian coinage
with English as well as Arabic text so as to help the occupying British troops
with identification and denomination types.
The obverse of the coin bears the
date AH 1333
(The accession date)
The reverse of the silver coins are
dated with both the Arabic & Western date
AH 1335 & 1916 or AH 1335 &
1917
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