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10 Pounds
| Issuer | Central Bank of Egypt |
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| Year | 1961-1965 |
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| Value | 10 Pounds (10 EGP) |
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| Obverse description | Dark green and dark brown on multicolour underprint. The vignette at right presents the gold funerary mask of Tutankhamun, rendered in intaglio against a fine guilloche background. Issuer name and denomination appear in Arabic script, with the governor's signature and date of issue inscribed below. |
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| Obverse lettering | البنك المركزى المصرى عشرة جنيهات مصرية القاهرة فى ٢٧ نوفمبر ١٩٦١ عن البنك المركزي المصرى توقيع: أحمد زندو محافظ البنك ١٠ جنيهات مصرية (Translation: Central Bank of Egypt Ten Egyptian Pounds Cairo, 27th of November 1961 For the Central bank of Egypt Signature: A. Zendo Governor) |
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Bradbury Wilkinson held the Egyptian high-denomination contract through much of the mid-twentieth century, and this note falls within a print run that overlapped with a turbulent stretch of Nasserist economic policy — the nationalizations of 1961 reshuffled the banking sector dramatically, effectively absorbing private banks into state institutions. The Central Bank of Egypt itself was only formally established that same year, replacing the National Bank of Egypt as the note-issuing authority, which explains the tight issue window for this series.
Two distinct signature combinations appear on P#41, reflecting the administrative turnover of that period. El-Refay and Zendo did not sign simultaneously — collector date specimens help establish which pairing corresponds to which part of the 1961–1965 range.