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5 Pounds
| Issuer | National Bank of Egypt |
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| Year | 1946-1951 |
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| Currency | Pound (1916-date) |
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| Obverse description | Brown and orange bicolour note with a portrait vignette of King Farouk positioned to the right and a vignette of the Mosque of Muhammad Ali to the left. A guilloche-patterned underprint frames the central field, with the watermark reserve area situated at bottom centre. Bilingual inscriptions in Arabic appear across the upper and lower registers. |
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| Reverse description | Central vignette of the Statue of Nilus, the Greco-Roman personification of the River Nile, accompanied by sixteen children symbolising the sixteen cubits of the annual Nile flood. The composition is framed by ornamental borders with denomination inscriptions in English running along the upper and lower margins. |
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| Signature(s) | 1946-1950 - Leith-Ross |
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