Egypt
20Pounds
Twenty Egyptian Pounds Banknote
- Country
- Egypt
- Issuer
- Central Bank of Egypt
- Type
- Horizontal note
- Material
- Polymer
- Size
- 137 × 69 mm
- Serial
- ٦ ط ٣٥٣٩٣٧٢ (prefix 6 ط, number 3539372)
Currency Information
The story
The mosque on the front is Ottoman in style, the largest built in the first half of the 19th century, and the most visible mosque in Cairo. It was built in memory of Tusun Pasha, Muhammad Ali’s oldest son, who died in 1816. The back pairs Queen Cleopatra and the Giza pyramid with Ramses II in a war chariot. The signature looks very similar to the one on your 10 pound note, but I can’t confirm that they match.
Front
Mohamed Ali Mosque (Alabaster Mosque) on the Cairo Citadel with its domes, twin minarets and crenellated citadel walls, mosque name caption in Arabic, arched niche panel with muqarnas carving, large fan-shaped sunburst roundel with shell motifs, lobed star ornament above the window, transparent lantern-shaped window with a colour-shifting holographic mosque, stylized papyrus registration device, small gold circle pattern, Governor’s signature, Arabic text “Central Bank of Egypt”
Back
Statue head of Queen Cleopatra in a nemes headdress with uraeus cobra and broad collar, Great Pyramid of Giza, Ramesses II drawing a bow from a war chariot, winged sun disc banner, papyrus plant, transparent window with a silver mosque, small circle patterns, cursive English text “Central Bank of Egypt”
