Obverse: Head of President Nasser right within a decorative pattern. Engraver´s emblem below.
Reverse: Arabic script surrounded by legend and dates (1970 AD / 1390 AH), split by decorative pattern.
Gamal Abdel Nasser Hussein (15 January 1918 – 28 September 1970) was the second President of Egypt from 1956 until his death. Along with Muhammad Naguib, the first president, he led the Egyptian Revolution of 1952 which overthrew the monarchy of Egypt and Sudan, and heralded a new period of modernization, and socialist reform in Egypt together with a profound advancement of pan-Arab nationalism, including a short-lived union with Syria.