10 Piastres Flag with three stars

Egypt's monarchy fell in July 1952, and the transitional period before the republic was formally declared in June 1953 produced exactly this kind of administrative ambiguity — Ministry of Finance small notes continuing under bureaucratic momentum while the political ground shifted entirely beneath them. The three-star flag motif on this series marked the short-lived republican symbolism before Nasser's United Arab Republic redesigns swept it away.

Three signatories appear across the issue's run, with Abdel Hamid El Sherif's tenure lasting a mere four months. The Survey of Egypt, operating continuously since the early nineteenth century, handled production entirely in-house — one of the few countries where the national mapping authority doubled as the banknote printer.