10 Shillings Anglo-Egyptian Banking Company Limited

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.