Catalog
10 Piastres
| Issuer | Egyptian Government |
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| Year | 1944-1952 |
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| Printer | Survey of Egypt, Cairo, Egypt (1822-date) |
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| Obverse description | Blue outer border enclosing a salmon-toned field with green guilloche underprint. An oval vignette at right carries a portrait of King Farouk surmounted by a royal crown, while Arabic inscriptions span the upper portion of the note. Denomination numerals and issuing authority text are distributed across the remaining design. |
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| Obverse lettering | الحكومة الملكية المصرية اوراق عملة رسمية صدر بمقتضى القانون رقم ٥٠ سنة ١٩٤٠ وزير المالية ١٠ قروش مصلحة المساحة المصرية (Translation: Egyptian Royal Government Official currency notes Issued under law 50 year 1940 Minister of Finance 10 Piasters Egyptian Survey Department) |
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Egypt's wartime currency arrangements left the government printing small denominations in-house rather than relying on overseas contractors, whose capacity was tied up elsewhere. The Survey of Egypt — a cartographic and technical agency — had been producing currency since the early 1920s, a somewhat unusual mandate for a mapping authority that nevertheless made practical sense given its existing intaglio infrastructure.
Notes of this series are prone to heavy soiling at the folds; they circulated hard through a period of significant political pressure, ending only with the Free Officers' coup of July 1952 that forced Farouk's abdication.