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100 Piastres Siege of Khartoum
| Issuer | General Charles George Gordon (Governor-General of the Sudan) |
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| Year | 1884 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream paper note of emergency issue type, with a central rectangular cartouche at top containing the denomination inscription in Arabic script. Below, a handwritten Arabic text body constitutes the body of the note, stating the promise to pay and the date, with a manuscript serial number above the text. Two official circular ink stamps are applied to the left and right sides — the left bearing the legend of the Gouvernorat du Soudan in French and Arabic, the right a smaller Ottoman-style seal — and a manuscript signature appears at the lower centre attributing the note to Gordon Pasha. |
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| Reverse description | Entirely plain reverse printed on unadorned cream paper stock with no vignette, underprint, or decorative elements. A handwritten pencil notation reading '100 Piastres' appears in the upper left corner, likely a collector's or cataloguer's annotation added at a later date. |
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| Protection type | Official stamp |
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