Ten Egyptian Pounds Banknote

Country: Egypt
Issuer: Central Bank of Egypt
Type: Horizontal note
Material: Polymer
Size: 132 × 69 mm
Serial: ١٠٤ د ٠٣٦٠٧٣٨ (prefix 104 د, number 0360738)

The story

The note was the first Egyptian banknote printed on polymer. It was designed by De La Rue and printed at the Central Bank of Egypt’s printworks in the New Capital. The Arabic face shows the Fattah El Aleem mosque, built on 110 acres with room for 17,000 people. The English side contrasts it with ancient imagery: a pyramid, the Alexandria library and a bust of Queen Hatshepsut. Sources conflict on her rank: Coin World calls her Egypt’s first female pharaoh, but another source calls her the second historically confirmed female pharaoh. Paper 10 pound notes stay in circulation alongside it.

Front

Al-Fattah Al-Aleem Mosque in the New Administrative Capital with its dome and minarets, mosque name caption in Arabic, arched niche panel with fine geometric lattice and muqarnas carving, large Islamic star-pattern roundel, transparent lantern-shaped window with a holographic mosque, small holographic patch, stylized papyrus/reed registration device, scattered small circles, Governor’s signature, Arabic text “Central Bank of Egypt”

Back

Head of the statue of Queen Hatshepsut in a nemes headdress (Metropolitan Museum of Art), Great Pyramid of Giza, Library of Alexandria building at lower left, winged sun disc with uraeus snakes in the top banner, transparent window with a gold holographic mosque, stylized papyrus/reed flower, scattered small circles, cursive English text “Central Bank of Egypt”