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10 Palestine Pounds
| Issuer | Anglo-Palestine Bank Limited |
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| Year | 1948-1952 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | The face is dominated by intricate guilloche underprint patterns in the note's primary color, with the issuing authority name "The Anglo-Palestine Bank Limited" and the denomination "Ten Palestine Pounds" rendered in both Hebrew and English. Parallel text blocks in each language are arranged across the note, with the value numeral "10" appearing at the corners. The overall design relies on fine-line guilloche work for visual security in the absence of a central vignette. |
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| Reverse description | The back mirrors the obverse in its reliance on elaborate guilloche underprint work, with the issuing authority name and denomination "Ten Palestine Pounds" presented in Arabic and English. The Arabic text is arranged in parallel with the English legend, with the numeral "١٠" at the corners. The composition is typographic and geometric throughout, with no central pictorial vignette. |
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The Anglo-Palestine Bank Limited was not a central bank but a commercial institution — yet between 1948 and the establishment of the Bank of Israel in 1954, it functioned as the de facto currency authority for the new state, issuing notes under a mandate framework that had already legally ceased to exist. The 10 Pound denomination was the highest value in this transitional series, printed by the American Bank Note Company at a moment when British Mandate currency was still in parallel circulation and the political status of the issuing entity was genuinely ambiguous under international law.
ABNC's involvement reflected the break from the previous Mandate-era notes, which had been printed in London. The shift to New York was a deliberate distancing from British institutional infrastructure.