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100 Pounds
| Issuer | Central Bank of Egypt |
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| Year | 2013-2024 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Reverse description | A large intaglio vignette of the Great Sphinx of Giza dominates the centre, rendered in finely engraved dark tones, facing right, with the pyramids implied in the background. To the lower right a band of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic symbols is set within a decorative cartouche, while large latent-image numeral underprints reading 100 appear at the left. The issuer's name CENTRAL BANK OF EGYPT and denomination ONE HUNDRED POUNDS are inscribed in Roman lettering, framed by a multicolour geometric guilloche border consistent with the obverse design. |
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| Signature(s) | 17.02.2013 & 08.10.2014 - 24.08.2015 - Arabic word "100" spelled as for a similar note with date 17.02.2013 but numeral in guilloche at lower left see EGYPT P-67l 24.08.2015 - 28.10.2015 - Arabic word for "100" spelled as (series 250 to 255) |
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Egypt has printed its own banknotes in-house since the CBE's Giza facility opened in 1967 — one of the earlier central bank printing works established in Africa and the Arab world. The P#76 series spans over a decade of continuous reissue under that same roof, with signature combinations and minor typographic variants in the Arabic numeral rendering generating a surprisingly detailed sub-classification. The distinction between P#76 and P#67l turns on the guilloche numeral at lower left — a difference invisible to most handlers but consequential to series collectors.
The series 250–255 spelling variant on notes dated 24.08.2015 through 28.10.2015 is among the more precisely documented die changes in modern Egyptian paper.