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100 Arabian Pounds

Emittent Hejaz, Kingdom of
Jahr 1924
Typ Standard circulation banknote
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Vorderseitenbeschreibung Multicolour print centred on a vignette of palm trees at a riverbank set within an architectural door frame; flanking the frame on each side stands an al-thawr al-mugannah (winged Assyrian bull lamassu), rendered in the manner of the monumental guardian figures from the Palace Complex of Sargon II at Khorsabad. The denomination is inscribed in the lower portion of the note.
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Rückseitenbeschreibung Multicolour print bearing the Great Coat of Arms of the Kingdom of Hejaz as the central vignette, rendered in full heraldic colour against a decorative multicolour underprint.
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The Hejaz notes of 1924 are among the rarest issues from the Arabian Peninsula, produced under Sharif Hussein bin Ali just as his control over the region was collapsing. Ibn Saud's forces were already advancing from Najd, and by late 1924 Mecca had fallen. Whatever quantity of this 100 Arabian Pounds denomination was printed, very little reached meaningful circulation before the Kingdom of Hejaz effectively ceased to exist as an independent state in 1925.

Pick lists this as P#6, but confirmed survivors are so few that population data remains unreliable. The short-lived Hejaz currency experiment left almost no documentary trail.