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100 Pounds
| Issuer | National Bank of Egypt |
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| Year | 1899-1912 |
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| Value | 100 Pounds |
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| Obverse description | Black and green on multicolour underprint. A vignette of the Philae Temple set against a riverside landscape occupies the left portion of the note, rendered in fine intaglio engraving. The heading 'NATIONAL BANK OF EGYPT' appears in bold letterpress across the top, with bilingual Arabic and English text including the promise-to-pay legend, issue date, and serial numbers arranged across the centre and lower fields. The denomination '100' appears in an ornate guilloche panel at lower left, with the Governor's signature line at lower right. |
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| Variants | P#6s1 - 15.01.1899. Specimen P#6s2 - 17.07.1906. Specimen P#6s3 - 02.10.1912. Specimen |
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The National Bank of Egypt was itself only founded in 1898 — a British-backed institution established under Egyptian state charter, with the concession granted to a consortium including Ernest Cassel. These early high-denomination notes were instruments of commercial banking as much as currency, used primarily for large mercantile settlements and interbank transfers rather than everyday exchange. A 100-pound note would have represented a sum far beyond ordinary reach in Egypt at the turn of the century.
Bradbury Wilkinson's intaglio work for this series was considered among the finest produced for a non-European issuer of the period. The plates required significant lead time before the bank even opened its doors.