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10 Pounds
| Issuer | Central Bank of Egypt |
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| Year | 2003-2014 |
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| Value | 10 Pounds |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of the Al-Rifai Mosque rendered in fine intaglio against a multicoloured guilloche underprint. The date appears at the upper left beneath the serial number, with the governor's signature to the right. Denominational numerals and Arabic inscriptions frame the composition. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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The Central Bank of Egypt established its own printing facility at Al-Haram, Giza in 1967, ending decades of reliance on foreign security printers — a shift driven more by political calculation than by technical readiness. Egypt had used De La Rue and other European firms for years; breaking that dependency mattered symbolically to Nasser's government regardless of the transition costs.
P#64 ran across an unusually long window for a modern Egyptian issue, with serial number prefixes and signature combinations across that eleven-year span making variety attribution genuinely involved. Collectors working this series need to track governor signatures carefully — at least three signatories appear across the run.