Catalog
1/2 Dinar
| Issuer | Central Bank of Jordan |
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| Year | 1975-1989 |
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| Composition | Cotton paper |
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| Obverse description | Intaglio-printed portrait of King Hussein in three-quarter view occupies the left third of the note, set within an intricate guilloche border with arabesque scrollwork at the corners. The denomination نصف دينار (Half Dinar) is inscribed in large Arabic script at centre, flanked by a vertical pale blue-green underprint. Two facsimile signatures appear below the denomination text, identified by the titles المحافظ (Governor) and وزير المالية (Minister of Finance), with a multicolour geometric mosaic panel at lower right. |
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| Reverse description | The right two-thirds of the reverse carry an intaglio vignette of the Roman colonnaded street and oval forum ruins at Jerash (Gerasa), rendered in fine brown engraving with a light blue sky underprint. A tall ornamental cartouche formed by a stylised numeral '1/2' and foliate scrollwork frames the blank watermark area on the left. The denomination HALF DINAR and the bilingual caption جرش / JERASH appear at the bottom centre, with the fractional value 1/2 repeated at the upper right and lower right corners. |
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| Signature(s) | serial # prefix beginning with "ﺃ" (Alif) serial # prefix beginning with "ﺏ" (Ba) |
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