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5 Piastres Republic of Egypt
| Issuer | Egyptian Government (Ministry of Finance) |
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| Year | 1952-1956 |
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| Reference(s) | MHN#M8(5PT) |
| Obverse description | Lilac and yellow-green note with an intaglio vignette of Queen Nefertiti in right-facing profile bust within a circular guilloche frame at right. The centre carries the denomination in Arabic script over a radiating guilloche underprint, with the serial number in both Arabic-Eastern and Western numerals along the lower margin. Two manuscript signatures appear at left, below which the title of the Minister of Finance and Economy is printed. The printer's imprint appears below the lower border. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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The Survey of Egypt, originally established as a military mapping body under Mohammed Ali, had been producing banknotes and fiscal documents since the nineteenth century — an unusual institutional history that left Egypt functionally independent of the European security printers that supplied most of the region. This note falls within the transitional window between the July 1952 Revolution and the declaration of the Republic in June 1953, then into the early Nasser years, a period when the Ministry of Finance was issuing small-denomination fractional notes rather than leaving low-value circulation entirely to coin.
The MHN reference rather than a Pick number suggests this series remains incompletely catalogued in the mainstream literature.