Catalog
100 Fils
| Issuer | Jordan |
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| Year | 1949 |
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| Currency | Dinar (1949-date) |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
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| Reverse description | A large bold numeral '100' occupies the central field, enclosed within a plain circle. Surrounding this inner circle is an annular band bearing the legend 'ONE HUNDRED FILS' in raised Latin capital letters. The outer circular legend reads 'THE HASHEMITE KINGDOM OF THE JORDAN', distributed around the full periphery of the coin. The date '1949' appears in the lower portion of the field, below the central circle, flanked by a small six-pointed star on each side. |
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Jordan's first coinage series, issued in 1949, predates the country's formal declaration of a constitutional monarchy by just one year — Abdullah I was assassinated in July 1951 before the series had fully embedded itself in everyday commerce. The Hashemite Kingdom had only existed under that name since 1949, having been Transjordan until April of that year, which makes this issue part of a remarkably compressed period of state formation.
The Royal Mint in London struck this series under contract, as Jordan had no domestic minting infrastructure of its own.