Publisher's Synopsis
The Egyptian Stock Exchange in its glory years is commemorated in this collector's volume of stock and bond certificates and brief histories of the Egyptian companies which issued them.
In this large-format album, images of choice stock and bond certificates issued by companies registered in the Eguptian Bourse will delight, not only scripophilists, notaphilists, and economists, but anyone interested in early twentieth-century Egyptian financial history and the aesthetic beauty of these collector's items.
Each certificate tells a story of the company which issued it, and the fascinating and dynamic business families that drove Egypt's economy at the time.
Samir Raafat tells the story of the rise and fall of the Egyptian Bourse, from 'the sale of the century' of Egypt's Suez Canal shares by Khedive Ismail in 1885 to the Free Officers coup of 1952.
