Egypt's wartime currency needs during World War I pushed the government to issue small-denomination notes in denominations previously handled entirely by coin. The Survey of Egypt — a cartographic and scientific institution pressed into banknote printing — handled production locally at Cairo, which was unusual given that most Egyptian government notes of the period relied on European security printers. The arrangement was a practical wartime necessity, not a permanent policy shift.
The series is prone to foxing along the edges, a known weakness of the Survey's paper stock from this period.
Egypt's wartime currency needs during World War I pushed the government to issue small-denomination notes in denominations previously handled entirely by coin. The Survey of Egypt — a cartographic and scientific institution pressed into banknote printing — handled production locally at Cairo, which was unusual given that most Egyptian government notes of the period relied on European security printers. The arrangement was a practical wartime necessity, not a permanent policy shift.
The series is prone to foxing along the edges, a known weakness of the Survey's paper stock from this period.