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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 366033, member: 2844&quot;]The current assay system was initiated in 1906, while Egypt was a Khedivate.</p><p>The Khedivate was formally under Ottoman rule, but the Egyptian Muhammad Ali dynasty Khedives were very powerful and semi-independent. The Egyptian Khedivate was highly organized, much like a military state.</p><p>The 1906 precious metal assaying and marking system came into use in 1916, when Egypt had been a British protectorate for just 2 years. But it was an Egyptian system, initiated by Egyptians before the country became a British protectorate</p><p><br /></p><p>Before 1906 there were already very good Ottoman and Ottoman/Khedivate marks. Just like in many other parts of North Africa and the Middles East. Those were just as good as the current ones, just more difficult to read for us simpletons.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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