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5 Pounds
| Issuer | Central Bank of Egypt |
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| Year | 2013-2022 |
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| Size | 145 × 70 mm |
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| Protection type | Watermark, Security thread |
| Protection description | Watermark portrait of Pharaoh Thutmose III visible when held to light; embedded security thread running vertically through the note |
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Egypt has printed its own banknotes in-house since the Central Bank's printing facility opened at Al-Haram, Giza in 1967 — a deliberate policy of self-sufficiency that makes the CBE one of relatively few central banks in the region to fully control its own production. The P#72 series ran across nearly a decade of considerable political turbulence, spanning the post-Morsi military government, the 2016 pound flotation crisis, and the austerity conditions attached to the IMF's $12 billion loan package — all of which placed acute pressure on banknote demand and supply.
The 2016 float caused the pound to lose roughly half its dollar value almost overnight, meaning physical currency production at Al-Haram ran at high volume through the later years of this series.