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The company operates the Sukari Gold Mine in the Eastern Desert of Egypt, [4] some 700 km from Cairo and 25 km from the Red Sea. First gold was poured at Sukari in June 2009 and commercial production began on 1 April 2010, making Sukari the first modern gold mine in Egypt, a country which in ancient times was a prolific producer of the precious metal.
The Ptolemaic dynasty introduced standard coinage to Egypt, where pre-existing native dynasties made only very limited use of coins. Egyptian gold stater was the first coin ever minted in ancient Egypt around 360 BC during the reign of pharaoh Teos of the 30th Dynasty. These coins were used to pay salaries of Greek mercenaries in his service.
Gold stater of Nectanebo II; Perfect Gold, or Fine Gold. One of the few coins minted for ancient Egypt is the gold stater, issued during the 30th Dynasty. The reverse of the gold stater shows a horse reared up on its hind legs. The obverse has the two hieroglyphs for nfr and nb: "Perfect gold", or a common-era term: 'Fine'-gold.
In 1885, Egypt went into a purely gold standard, and the Egyptian pound unit, known as the juneih, was introduced at E£1 = 7.4375 grammes of fine gold. This unit was chosen on the basis of the gold content in the British gold sovereign and maintaining the exchange value of 97.5 piastres to the pound sterling, and it replaced the Egyptian ...
Usually the word mina referred to a mina of silver, but Plautus also twice mentions a mina of gold. [19] In the 4th century BC, gold was worth about 10 times the same weight of silver. [20] In Plautus, 20 minae is mentioned as the price of buying a slave. [21] It was also the price of hiring a courtesan for a year.
2. Hoppin’ John. Southerners are usually eating Hoppin’ John (a simmery mix of black-eyed peas and rice) on New Year's Day. Like most “vegetable” recipes from around this area, it contains ...
Nicotine Replacement Therapy. Among your NRT options are nicotine pouches and patches. Pouches directly supply low doses of nicotine through oral absorption.
From the Middle Kingdom date deben weight units used for particular metals, referred to as copper deben and gold deben, the former being about twice as heavy (27 g (0.95 oz; 0.87 ozt)) as the latter. Such weights from the Middle Kingdom were discovered at Lisht, using gold deben, [6] and copper deben. [7]