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1 Pound Anglo-Egyptian Banking Company Limited
| Issuer | Anglo-Egyptian Banking Company Limited |
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| Year | 1886 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in black intaglio with a terracotta-brown guilloche underprint. At upper left, the issuer's name is set in bold Gothic script reading 'The Anglo-Egyptian Banking Company Limited', while a finely engraved oval portrait vignette at left centre presents a bearded gentleman in period armour, framed by an ornate scrollwork border with a crowned cartouche above and a numeral '1' medallion below. The central field carries a large decorative 'ONE' underprint in brown, overlaid with a cursive promise-to-pay text and the issue date 'Malta 1st October 1886', with a starburst denomination panel 'ONE' at upper right and a further '£ONE' cartouche at lower centre flanked by 'Ent.d' and 'Acc.t' accounting fields. |
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| Obverse lettering | The Anglo-Egyptian Banking Company Limited ONE We Promise to pay the Bearer on Demand the Sum of One Pound Malta 1st October 1886 For The Anglo-Egyptian Banking Company Limited Managers Ent.d Acc.t BRADBURY, WILKINSON & Co. ENGRAVERS & LONDON. |
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The Anglo-Egyptian Banking Company was incorporated in London in 1864 to service British commercial interests in Egypt and the Levant. By 1886, the Egyptian financial system was still reeling from the consequences of the 1882 British occupation and the forced restructuring of Egyptian state debt — private banknotes circulated alongside a chaotic mix of government kaimés and foreign currency, with public confidence in paper extremely low.
Bradbury Wilkinson's engraved work on private bank issues of this period is among the finest produced for colonial-market institutions. The S102 designation indicates a private banking issue rather than a central authority, and survivors are genuinely rare — the Anglo-Egyptian Banking Company was absorbed into Barclays (Dominion, Colonial and Overseas) in 1925, after which remaining stocks would have been retired.