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Siege of Khartoum notes (1884)

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Reason

High quality, high EV (presented as a set).
Siege money is a term used for emergency issue currency (usually notes) that are produced during times of war, generally by the defenders during a prolonged siege. During times of siege and/or war, metallic currency is usually hoarded for the intrinsic value of the coin (e.g., gold, silver, bronze, copper), leaving a shortage of money, particularly small denominations. This has led to different types of siege notes (and in earlier times siege coins).

Original

Khedivate of Egypt, nearly complete set of Siege of Khartoum emergency currency issued by British Major-general Charles George Gordon in 1884. Denominated from 5 – 5,000 piastre, and 50 Egyptian pounds, half of the notes in the set are hand-signed by Gordon (the other bear a hectographic signature). Three of the notes appear to have been linen-backed. Design details can be found in the article.

Articles in which these images appear

Siege of Khartoum (currency) (all), Charles George Gordon, Siege of Khartoum, Egyptian pound, Promissory note, and Hectograph

FP category for this image

Currency/Other

Creator

Charles George Gordon & Khedivate of Egypt
From the National Numismatic Collection, National Museum of American History
Images by Godot13

Emergency siege notes issued by Charles George Gordon
(printed date 25 April 1884) during the Siege of Khartoum

• 
  5 piastres
  hand-signed
• 
  10 piastres
  hand-signed
• 
  20 piastres
  hand-signed

• 
  100 piastres
• 
  500 piastres
  hand-signed
• 
  1,000 piastres
  hand-signed

• 
  2,000 piastres
• 
  2,500 piastres

• 
  5,000 piastres
• 
  50 Egyptian pounds

• Support as nominator – Godot13 (talk) 18:52, 13 October 2015 (UTC)
• Support, high quality contribution from Godot13 — but please also look at the high quality article Siege of Khartoum (currency) which Godot13 wrote for Wikipedia, from scratch, which also helps to demonstrate the High Encyclopedic Value of this set of images. Excellent work. :) — Cirt (talk) 20:45, 13 October 2015 (UTC)
• Support --Tremonist (talk) 14:17, 15 October 2015 (UTC)
• Support – Yann (talk) 22:04, 15 October 2015 (UTC)
• Support --Jobas (talk) 11:30, 16 October 2015 (UTC)
• Support – per Cirt. Fredlyfish4 (talk) 02:51, 20 October 2015 (UTC)

Promoted File:SUD-S102a-Siege of Khartoum-5 Piastres (1884).jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 23:38, 23 October 2015 (UTC)
Promoted File:SUD-S103a-Siege of Khartoum-10 Piastres (1884).jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 23:38, 23 October 2015 (UTC)
Promoted File:SUD-S104a-Siege of Khartoum-20 Piastres (1884).jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 23:38, 23 October 2015 (UTC)
Promoted File:SUD-S105b-Siege of Khartoum-100 Piastres (1884).jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 23:38, 23 October 2015 (UTC)
Promoted File:SUD-S106a-Siege of Khartoum-500 Piastres (1884).jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 23:38, 23 October 2015 (UTC)
Promoted File:SUD-S107a-Siege of Khartoum-1000 Piastres (1884).jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 23:38, 23 October 2015 (UTC)
Promoted File:SUD-S108b-Siege of Khartoum-2000 Piastres (1884).jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 23:38, 23 October 2015 (UTC)
Promoted File:SUD-S109b-Siege of Khartoum-2500 Piastres (1884).jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 23:38, 23 October 2015 (UTC)
Promoted File:SUD-S110b-Siege of Khartoum-5000 Piastres (1884).jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 23:38, 23 October 2015 (UTC)
Promoted File:SUD-S111b-Siege of Khartoum-50 Egyptian Pounds (1884).jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 23:38, 23 October 2015 (UTC)