Catalog
20 Dinars
| Issuer | Central Bank of Jordan |
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| Year | 1992 |
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| Reference(s) | P#27 |
| Obverse description | Intaglio portrait of King Hussein II wearing a traditional kuffiyeh occupies the centre-right within an arched vignette, set against a light guilloche underprint in pale blue and green tones. The Arabic denomination عشرون ديناراً appears in large letterpress script at centre-left, flanked by the numeral 20 repeated in the corners. Two facsimile signature lines for the Governor and Minister of Finance appear below the central vignette, with a hexagonal serial number panel in dark brown at lower left. |
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| Reverse description | A detailed architectural vignette of the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem occupies the centre, rendered in intaglio with the golden dome rising above the octagonal arcade, set against a pale guilloche background in blue and green. The inscription DOME OF THE ROCK-JERUSALEM and its Arabic equivalent قبة الصخرة - القدس appear at upper left, with the Hijri year 1412 and Gregorian year 1992 at upper right. An ornamental Islamic arabesque panel appears at lower centre-right, with the issuer's name CENTRAL BANK OF JORDAN in bold letterpress along the lower margin. |
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Jordan's 1992 series was printed during a period of acute fiscal stress — the kingdom had entered an IMF structural adjustment program in 1989 following a severe balance-of-payments crisis that collapsed the dinar by nearly 50% against the dollar. The 20-dinar note sat near the top of a denomination range that the government was simultaneously trying to rebuild credibility around, which made the quality of production politically as well as commercially significant. De La Rue's involvement was consistent with Jordan's long-standing preference for British security printers.
The watermark is the sole listed security feature for this type — relatively modest for a high-value note by early 1990s standards, when magnetic and fluorescent threads were already common in comparable issues.