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1 Dinar - Hussein Jerusalem
| Issuer | Central Bank of Jordan |
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| Year | 1969 |
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| Orientation | Coin alignment ↑↓ |
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| Obverse description | Bare-headed effigy of King Hussein I in right-facing profile, rendered in high relief against a mirror-polished field. Arabic legends arc along the left and right periphery, reading the royal titles of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. The Hashemite royal crown device appears at the top of the field above the portrait. The denomination دينار واحد (One Dinar) is inscribed below the bust, with the Hijri date ١٣٨٩ (1389) beneath it. The entire design is framed by a finely beaded inner border. |
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| Mintage | 1389 (1969) - ١٣٨٩ - 1969 Proof - 1,000 1389 (1969) - ١٣٨٩ - 1969 Proof Sets (KM#PS3) - 1389 (1969) - ١٣٨٩ - 1969 Proof Sets (KM#PS4) - 1389 (1969) - ١٣٨٩ - 1969 Proof Sets (KM#PS6) - 5,800 |
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Issued to mark the Islamic Summit Conference held in Rabat in September 1969, this coin was struck in direct response to the arson attack on Al-Aqsa Mosque the previous month — an act carried out by an Australian Christian extremist that provoked outrage across the Arab world and accelerated calls for coordinated Muslim political action. Jordan's claim to custodianship of Jerusalem's holy sites, formalized under the 1994 peace treaty with Israel but rooted in Hashemite tradition stretching back to the British Mandate period, gives this issue its particular political charge.
The .999 fine silver specification is unusually pure for a circulation-adjacent commemorative of this period.