جنية الجملين

Bank banknotes

Al-Ahram, January 14, 1899: A news item published in Al-Ahram newspaper in January 1899 stated that during a visit by an Al-Ahram correspondent to the National Bank of Egypt, the bank's governor, Sir Elwyn Palmer, showed him the banknotes that the bank was going to issue. The correspondent mentioned that they had beautiful designs, including a drawing of the Sphinx for fifty piasters and a drawing of a camel for one hundred piasters…