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5 Pounds
| Issuer | Central Bank of Egypt |
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| Year | 1969-1978 |
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| Size | 170 × 85 mm |
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| Reverse description | Hapi, the Ancient Egyptian deity of the Nile inundation, shown in profile bearing offerings to the right, with the ruined funerary temple of Ramesses II (the Ramesseum) occupying the left field. Upper and lower registers carry friezes of Ancient Egyptian daily-life scenes rendered in a hieroglyphic-relief style. |
| Reverse lettering | Five EGYPTIAN POUNDS CENTRAL BANK OF EGYPT LE 5 |
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Egypt's P#45 5 Pound series spans a decade of considerable monetary turbulence, bracketed by the aftermath of the 1967 Six-Day War defeat and the managed liberalization that followed Sadat's 1974 infitah policy. The Central Bank had absorbed the National Bank of Egypt's note-issuing function only in 1961, and this series reflects the transitional bureaucratic instability of that period — three different governor signatures across a single Pick number is unusual for a run of just over twelve million notes.
The signature of A. Zendo (Sig. 14) is the scarcest of the three, with a significantly narrower issue window than either flanking signatory.