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1 Dinar - Hussein Human Rights
| Issuer | Central Bank of Jordan |
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| Year | 1998 |
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| Currency | Dinar (1949-date) |
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| Obverse lettering | الحسين بن طلال ملك المملكة الأردنية الهاشمية |
| Reverse description | The central device consists of an elaborate arabesque ornamental motif in high relief, featuring interlaced foliate scrollwork encircling a stylized numeral '1' in Eastern Arabic script. An Arabic inscription commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights appears within the central medallion. The legend 'THE HASHEMITE KINGDOM OF JORDAN' arcs across the upper periphery in Latin script, while 'ONE DINAR' appears along the lower left and an Arabic equivalent along the lower right. The dual Hijri and Gregorian dates '1419 - 1998' are inscribed at the base. |
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Jordan issued this commemorative dinar in 1998 to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted by the UN General Assembly on December 10, 1948. King Hussein, who died in February 1999 just months after this coin entered circulation, had positioned Jordan as a regional moderate voice — the country had signed its peace treaty with Israel only four years earlier in 1994, a politically costly move that shaped Hussein's late-reign international identity.