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10 Piastres Siege of Khartoum
| Issuer | General Charles George Gordon (Governor-General of the Sudan) |
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| Year | 1884 |
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| Value | 10 Piastres |
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| Obverse lettering | عشرة غروش مباري |
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| Protection description | Oval green ink seal of the Khartoum Treasury applied on the obverse as the primary authentication mark. |
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One of the most extreme emergency issues in the entire catalog of colonial-era paper money. Khartoum was cut off by Mahdist forces from March 1884; General Charles Gordon, facing a collapse of hard currency inside the city, authorized the Treasury to produce handwritten or simply printed notes to keep the garrison's internal economy functioning. These were not banknotes in any conventional sense — they were obligation slips backed by nothing more than Gordon's personal authority and the assumption that relief would arrive.
Relief did not arrive in time. Khartoum fell in January 1885, and Gordon was killed. Notes that survived the siege did so largely by accident.