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5 Pounds Anglo-Egyptian Banking Company Limited
| Issuer | Anglo-Egyptian Banking Company Limited |
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| Year | 1886 |
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| Value | 5 Pounds |
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| Obverse description | Portrait vignette of Fra' Jean Parisot de la Valette, 49th Grand Master of Malta, positioned at left, with the denomination rendered in letterpress at centre and right. The note bears the issuer's title and a promise-to-pay clause in period typography, with the place and date of issue noted as Malta, 1st October 1886. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is executed entirely in brown intaglio, centred on a large oval guilloche medallion bearing the word FIVE in bold serif capitals against a fine lathe-work background, encircled by a repetitive 'FIVE' legend band. Four elaborate symmetrical rosette vignettes in heavy guilloche fill the corners, all framed within a scalloped outer border; the printer's imprint 'BRADBURY WILKINSON & C° LONDON' appears within the lower arc of the central medallion. |
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The Anglo-Egyptian Banking Company was incorporated in London in 1864 to finance trade between Britain and Egypt, operating during the period of intensifying European financial control over Egyptian affairs that culminated in the British occupation of 1882. This note dates from four years into that occupation, when the company's position in Egypt was commercially secure but its long-term future increasingly uncertain — the National Bank of Egypt, which would eventually dominate the market, was not chartered until 1898.
Bradbury Wilkinson's intaglio work on private bank issues of this period is generally fine, and the S103 series is no exception. Surviving examples are rare; the company's Egyptian branch network was limited, and notes of this denomination saw heavy commercial rather than retail use, meaning attrition was high.