Front: Entrance portal of the National Zoo in Giza
above (arced value) جنيهات خمسة ٥ ('a.s.m.kh t.'a.h.ī.n.g,
khamsa genihat, 5 five pounds)
between (period years, left) ١٩٩١ (1991)
(right, Arabic year) ١٨٩١ (1891)
legend: (above, state name) جمهورية مصر العربية
(transliterated: Gomhoreyyet Maṣr el-ʿArabeyya,
translated: Arab Republic of Egypt)
(upper-left, Western year) ١٩٩١ (1991)
(upper-right, Arabic year) ١٤١١ (AH1411)
(below, subject) العند الذكرى حديقة حيوان الجيزة
(a.z.ī.j.l.'a n.'a.w.ī.h at.q.ī.d.h(a) ā.r.k.dh(i).l.'a
d.ī.'e.l.'a ←, translated: centennial anniversary Giza Zoo)
Back: Five animals (giraffe (front-left, Giraffa camelopardalis)
in front of a Nile crocodile (left, Crocodylus niloticus)
between (left) Shoebill (right, Balaeniceps rex)
above reclining African lion (left, Panthera leo)
(right) African bush elephant (left, Loxodonta africana))
designer: (up-left) لـا (...)
legend: none
Edge: G – grained, type: bars