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50 Piastres
| Issuer | National Bank of Egypt |
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| Year | 1935-1951 |
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| Printer | Bradbury Wilkinson and Company, United Kingdom (1856-1990) |
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| Obverse lettering | ٥٠ قرشا صاغا البنك الاهلي المصري أتعهد بأن أدفع عند الطلب لحامل هذا السند مبلغ خمسين قرشا صاغا (Translation: 50 Piastres National Bank of Egypt I promise to pay the bearer on demand the sum of 50 Piastres) |
| Reverse description | The reverse carries an English-language text block at centre with the bank name and issuing decree date. To the right, the crescent and three stars motif of the Egyptian national emblem appears above the denomination numeral '50 Piastres'. Flanking each side of the lower field, a stylised lotus flower is guarded by two rearing cobras rendered in guilloche-style vignettes. |
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| Variants | P#21a - 1935-1940 signature: Cook P#21b - 1940-1943 signature: Nixon (large) P#21c - 1945-1947 signature: Nixon (small) P#21d - 1947-1950 signature: Leith-Ross P#21e - 1951 |
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