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1 Dirham / 100 Fils - Hussein 2nd Pattern
| Issuer | Central Bank of Jordan |
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| Year | 1975 |
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| Composition | Gold |
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| Obverse description | Unadorned right-facing effigy of King Hussein bin Talal, rendered in high relief with fine detail to the facial features and short hair. The portrait is centrally positioned within a beaded border, occupying the majority of the field. A two-part Arabic legend curves around the effigy: the royal name to the right and the full royal title to the left, reading 'Hussein bin Talal, King of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan'. The engraving, attributed to Philip Nathan, displays a naturalistic and dignified portrait style characteristic of mid-twentieth-century medallic art. |
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| Reverse script | Arabic, Latin |
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Pattern coinage from Jordan's 1975 metrication experiment, when the Central Bank briefly explored restructuring the fils-based system around a dirham unit before abandoning the proposal entirely. The reformed denomination never entered circulation, making sanctioned pattern strikes the only physical record of the initiative.
KM#Pn12 is among a small cluster of gold patterns from this period, almost certainly struck in limited numbers for presentation or archival purposes.