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| National Bank of Egypt - Fifty Pounds 1906 |
Egyptian banknotes 50 Pounds 16.4.1906 National Bank of Egypt, P-5s.
Obverse: Vignette of the Ramesseum (The Osiris columns - Memorial Temple of Ramses II) at left and ornate under-printed protector at right in multicolored.
Reverse: In the middle, geometric design surrounding the name of the bank.
Specimen printed by BWC - Bradbury Wilkinson & Co Limited, London.
Ramesseum
The Ramesseum is the memorial temple (or mortuary temple) of Pharaoh Ramesses II ("Ramesses the Great", also spelled "Ramses" and "Rameses"). It is located in the Theban necropolis in Upper Egypt, across the River Nile from the modern city of Luxor. The name – or at least its French form, Rhamesséion – was coined by Jean-François Champollion, who visited the ruins of the site in 1829 and first identified the hieroglyphs making up Ramesses's names and titles on the walls. It was originally called the House of millions of years of Usermaatra-setepenra that unites with Thebes-the-city in the domain of Amon.
Egyptian banknotes
National Bank of Egypt - Decree 25.06.1898
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