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10 Shillings Anglo-Egyptian Banking Company Limited
| Issuer | Anglo-Egyptian Banking Company Limited |
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| Year | 1886 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | The Anglo-Egyptian Banking Company Limited TEN SHILLINGS 10s. 10/s We Promise to pay the Bearer on Demand the Sum of Ten Shillings Malta, 1st October 1886 For The Anglo-Egyptian Banking Company Limited MANAGERS Entd Acct BRADBURY, WILKINSON & CO. ENGRAVERS &c. LONDON |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed entirely in rust-brown, with a dense guilloche border of repeating floral and fan motifs forming a scalloped outer frame. A central rectangular panel set against fine lathe-work micropattern background carries the bold letters 'TEN' overlapping a ribbon cartouche inscribed 'SHILLINGS', with the printer's imprint 'BRADBURY WILKINSON & CO. LONDON' at the base of the panel. A perforated cancellation is visible at lower left. |
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The Anglo-Egyptian Banking Company was incorporated in London in 1864 to finance trade along the eastern Mediterranean and into Egypt, operating at a moment when British commercial interests were aggressively expanding ahead of any formal political control. By 1886 the bank had branches across Egypt and the Levant, but note-issuing activity was always a secondary function — the company was primarily a trade and exchange bank, not a currency authority.
Bradbury Wilkinson produced this note at their New Malden works. The S101 designation places it among the rarer privately issued British-connected bank notes from the region; few examples survive in any condition, likely because circulation in Egyptian commercial ports was hard on paper.