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| 裏面の説明 | Violet. The reverse is dominated by a central oval vignette of the Island of Philae with its ancient temple complex reflected in the Nile waters, a traditional felucca sailing boat in the foreground at right. The oval vignette is framed by an ornate engine-turned border of acanthus scroll and foliate guilloche work, with the numeral "5" positioned in each of the four corners within decorative cartouches. |
| 裏面の銘文 | 5. ٥ 5 ٥ (Translation: 5 5 5 5) |
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| 偽造防止技術 | ログイン して詳細を見る |
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Egypt in 1917 was under British occupation, and these government treasury notes — not central bank issues — were a direct administrative tool of that arrangement. The Egyptian Government series ran alongside British military currency in a market where confidence in paper was fragile and coin hoarding was widespread, particularly in wartime.
Barclay & Fry Ltd, a London security printer, handled the physical production. The watermark is the primary anti-counterfeiting measure — relatively modest for the period, but consistent with wartime economies in print specification.
P#158 belongs to a series that continued largely unchanged in format through the early 1920s, outlasting the political circumstances that originally prompted it.