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5 Piastres
| Issuer | Egyptian Government (Ministry of Finance) |
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| Year | 1952 |
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| Printer | Survey of Egypt, Cairo, Egypt (1822-date) |
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| Obverse description | Portrait vignette of Queen Nefertiti in right profile at right, set within a guilloche border. The left portion of the note carries an overprint pattern overlying the earlier Farouk watermark area. Arabic inscriptions appear at top center, with the denomination in Arabic numerals and text at center, and a serial number printed in both Arabic-Indic and Western numerals along the lower margin. |
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| Obverse lettering | الدولة المصرية أوراق عملة رسمية خمسة قروش صادر بمقتضى القانون رقم ٥٠ سنة ١٩٤٠ |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in brown on an unprinted ground, dominated by an elaborate guilloche rosette at center flanked by two smaller oval guilloche vignettes bearing the numeral 5. The title 'EGYPTIAN CURRENCY NOTE' appears in large letterpress text at lower center, with 'ISSUED UNDER LAW No. 50/1940' above the facsimile signature line, and the imprint 'SURVEY OF EGYPT' at the bottom margin. |
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