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10 Pounds
| Issuer | National Bank of Egypt |
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| Year | 1952-1960 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Printed in rose-red and violet on a light underprint, the obverse carries the bank title in Arabic script at the top, with an intaglio vignette of a Pharaonic head in three-quarter profile occupying the right panel within an ornate arched guilloche border. The central field displays the denomination in large Arabic numerals and calligraphic text, flanked by two circular guilloche rosettes serving as watermark windows, with the issue date and serial numbers printed in Arabic at lower centre and corners. |
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| Reverse lettering | NATIONAL BANK OF EGYPT 10 TEN EGYPTIAN POUNDS |
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The National Bank of Egypt's £10 series covering this period spans one of the most turbulent stretches in modern Egyptian history — the 1952 Free Officers' Revolution, the abolition of the monarchy, and the transition to a republic. The banknote authority continued functioning through all of it, and Bradbury Wilkinson's contract ran uninterrupted, a quiet indicator of how dependent Egyptian currency production remained on British printing capacity even as political ties with London frayed badly over Suez in 1956.
Four distinct signature combinations are documented across P#32, reflecting genuine administrative turnover at the Bank rather than routine variety collecting. El-Refay signatures are notably scarcer in circulated grades — his tenure was short.