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25 Piastres
| Issuer | Central Bank of Egypt |
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| Year | 1976-1978 |
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| Reference(s) | P#47 |
| Obverse description | Blue, green and greyish brown on blue and orange multicolour underprint. The Statue of the Rise of Egypt vignette positioned at left centre, with the issuer's title and denomination inscriptions in Arabic. Signature of Governor Mohamed Abdul Fattah Ibrahim (Signature 15) appears below the central design. |
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| Reverse description | The Arms of the Arab Republic of Egypt — the Hawk of Quraish with a shield on its breast and a scroll bearing the state name in Arabic below — occupies the centre within a finely engraved guilloche medallion. Flanking the central arms are stalks of wheat, cotton bolls and ears of maize rendered in intaglio, symbolising Egypt's agricultural wealth. The denomination numerals and issuer's name appear in English in the top and bottom ornamental borders. |
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The P#47 series covers a three-year window during which Egypt was navigating the immediate economic aftershocks of the 1973 October War and the subsequent infitah — Sadat's open-door liberalization policy that flooded the market with foreign goods and put sustained pressure on the pound. Small-denomination notes from this period circulated hard and wore out fast; the 25 piastre note in particular passed through enormous transaction volume in daily retail use, and worn examples are far more common than clean ones.
Mohamed Abdul Fattah Ibrahim served as Governor of the Central Bank during this period, his tenure running through the mid-to-late 1970s.