bust in cloak with cap facing slightly to left, on either side MEHEMETALI/ PACHA
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in curve at top FROM THE COMITEE, below which a nine-line inscriptionTHE FRIEND/ OF SCIENCE AND COMMERCE/ & ORDER WHO PROTECTED/ THESUBJECTS AND PROPERTY/ OF ADVERSE POWERS/ AND KEPT OPEN/ THE OVERLANDROUTE/ TO INDIA/ 1840; crossed quill pens below
pharoh in chariot charging to right; target with five arrows at right; above. 1949. below, in four lines. EXPOSITION./.EGYPTE-FRANCE./.PAVILLIONDE MARSAN./.PARIS.; behind chariot (symbol)
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bird's-eye view of exhibition hall, to left and below a long inscriptionin fifteen lines; below, in two lines OCTOBRE-NOVEMBRE/1949 incuse at upperleft, near rim H.DROPSY
mosque lamp in front of open Qur'an; on scroll above which is (arabic writing) to right (arabic writing); to left in three lines ( arabic writing) two branches below
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arms of the United Arab Republic in center of star-burst; above in Kufic Arabic (arabic writing) below in Kufic Arabic
mosque lamp in front of open Qur'an; on scroll above which is (arabic writing) to right (arabic writing); to left in three lines ( arabic writing) two branches below
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arms of the United Arab Republic in center of star-burst; above in Kufic Arabic (arabic writing) below in Kufic Arabic; as catalog no. 6258, except on obverse: to right (arabic writing) to left (arabic writing)