Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Siege of Khartoum notes (1884)

Siege of Khartoum notes (1884)
Voting period ends on 23 Oct 2015  at 18:52:29 (UTC)
 * 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


 * Support as nominator – Godot13 (talk) 18:52, 13 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Support, high quality contribution from &mdash; but please also look at the high quality article Siege of Khartoum (currency) which  wrote for Wikipedia, from scratch, which also helps to demonstrate the High Encyclopedic Value of this set of images. Excellent work. :) &mdash; 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)

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