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| Issuer | Central Bank of Egypt |
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| Year | 2017 |
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| Printer | Egyptian Government Printing House, Cairo |
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| Reverse description | Upper portion of a colossal statue of Ramesses II occupies the central field, set against a vertical multicolored guilloche band. Flanking elements include a cluster of lotus flowers and a solar barque vignette; a Pharaonic cartouche appears at the lower right corner, while the left margin carries an architectural motif drawn from the façade of a Pharaonic temple. |
| Reverse lettering | Central Bank of Egypt Fifty Piastres |
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Pick 70 has been the workhorse fifty-piastres note for decades, with the Egyptian Government Printing House running successive date varieties through an unbroken design lineage that stretches back to the 1980s. The practical consequence of that longevity is heavy circulation wear — this denomination sees real daily use, and survivors in anything approaching original condition are consistently harder to find than the print runs would suggest.