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50 Pounds Palestine Saving Bond
| Issuer | هيئة وادى النيل العليا لأنقاد فلسطين (Higher Nile Valley Authority for the Rescue of Palestine) |
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| Year | 1948 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | هيئة وادى النيل العليا لأنقاد فلسطين المعتمدة من وزارة الشئون الاجتماعية التوزيع الثالث ٥٠ جنيه مصريا رقم ٢٢٠٥٥ إمضاء رئيس الهيئة إمضاء أمين الصندوق من حضرة |
| Reverse description | Reverse entirely unprinted, with plain cream paper stock. The perforated counterfoil separation line is visible at left edge. |
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The Higher Nile Valley Authority for the Rescue of Palestine was one of several pan-Arab fundraising bodies that emerged in 1948 to finance military and humanitarian efforts during the Arab-Israeli War. This bond was not a banknote in any formal sense — it carried no central bank guarantee and was never legal tender. Its issuing authority had no governmental standing, operating instead as a semi-official relief and mobilization organ drawing support from Egyptian nationalist circles in the aftermath of the May 1948 Arab League intervention.
Fifty pounds was a substantial sum at the time, placing this instrument squarely in institutional or wealthy-donor territory rather than general public subscription.