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5 Pounds Anglo-Egyptian Banking Company Limited
| Issuer | Anglo-Egyptian Banking Company Limited |
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| Year | 1886 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | The Anglo-Egyptian Banking Company Limited. We Promise to pay the Bearer on Demand the Sum of Five Pounds. 1886, Oct 1st Malta 1st Oct 1886 FOR The Anglo-Egyptian Banking Company Limited £FIVE |
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| Reverse lettering | FIVE BRADBURY WILKINSON & C° LONDON |
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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.