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50 Pounds
| Issuer | National Bank of Egypt |
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| Year | 1899 |
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| Currency | Pound (1834-1916) |
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| Obverse lettering | NATIONAL BANK OF EGYPT FIFTY EGYPTIAN POUNDS I promise to pay the Bearer on Demand CAIRO GOVERNOR ISSUED UNDER DECREE DATED 25th JUNE 1898 البنك الاهلي المصري خمسون جنيهاً مصرياً |
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| Reverse lettering | البنك الاهلي المصري ٥٠ S.E. 50 |
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The National Bank of Egypt was established in 1898 as a private institution under British influence — not a state central bank, but a chartered commercial bank granted the right of note issue. These early high-denomination notes were instruments of colonial financial architecture as much as anything else, designed to facilitate large-scale trade and government transactions in a country still nominally under Ottoman suzerainty while practically under British occupation.
Bradbury Wilkinson handled the printing from their New Malden works. The P#5 series is genuinely rare at this denomination; 50-pound notes in any early Egyptian series saw limited retail circulation and were predominantly used in interbank settlement.