10 Mils

The Palestine Currency Board operated under a peculiar mandate — it was a London-based body issuing currency for a territory under British Mandate, with no central bank and no lender of last resort. The 1942–43 bronze issues replaced the earlier cupro-nickel composition specifically because wartime nickel allocation to armaments production made the previous alloy untenable. Bronze was the expedient substitute.

These years also coincided with the height of Rommel's North Africa campaign, when Palestine itself was considered a plausible Axis target. Coins minted in this window circulated under genuine military emergency conditions.