King Tutankhamun - 10 millieme

Year

1957

Face Value

Mint Value

Used Value

Print Run

Themes

Personalities

Catalogs References

Michel

EG-PS 93X

Yvert & Tellier

EG-PS 60

Stanley Gibbons

EG-PS 87a

Technical Details

Colors

violet

Printing

Photogravure

This vivid violet definitive issue features the iconic profile of Pharaoh Tutankhamun (c. 1341–1323 BC), modeled after his world-renowned solid gold funerary mask discovered in 1922 by Howard Carter in the Valley of the Kings.Representing Egypt’s global symbol of historical permanence and sovereign legacy, this definitive stock was overprinted in red with the bilingual text "PALESTINE / فلسطين" for official postal circulation within the Gaza Strip.