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5 Pounds
| Issuer | National Bank of Egypt |
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| Year | 1946-1951 |
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| Reference(s) | P#25 |
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| Obverse lettering | البنك الاهلي المصري اصدر بمقتضى المرسوم العالى المؤرخ فى ٢٥ يونيو سنة ١٨٩٨ أتعهد بأن أدفع عند الطلب لحامل هذا السند مبلغ خمست جنيهات مصرية (Translation: National Bank of Egypt Produced based on the decree dated 25th January in the year 1898 I promise to pay the bearer on demand the sum of Five Egyptian Pounds) |
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| Protection description | Lotus flower watermark |
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The National Bank of Egypt was a privately held institution — not a central bank in the modern sense — that retained its note-issuing authority well into the postwar period, despite Egypt's growing political pressure to nationalize it. Leith-Ross, whose signature appears on the earlier issues of this series, was a British Treasury official of considerable influence; his presence on Egyptian currency reflects the degree to which sterling-area monetary arrangements still shaped Egyptian finance in the late 1940s.
Bradbury Wilkinson produced the series in London, a long-standing arrangement that would become politically untenable as the 1952 revolution approached.