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5 Dinars
| Issuer | Jordan Currency Board |
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| Year | 1949 |
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| Currency | Dinar (1949-date) |
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| Obverse description | Portrait vignette of King Abdullah I in traditional white turban at right, set within an ornate red guilloche border with arabesque cornerpieces. The Arabic inscription of the issuer and denomination appears at top and centre respectively, with the date 1949 and two signature lines at lower centre. The numeral 5 appears in each corner against the decorative underprint. |
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| Protection description | Portrait watermark of King Abdullah I |
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Jordan's Currency Board — a transitional authority established to manage the country's monetary affairs following separation from the Palestinian pound zone — issued this note in 1949, the year the Board itself was formally constituted. Thomas De La Rue printed the series in London under tight postwar conditions, at a moment when the Hashemite Kingdom was simultaneously absorbing the West Bank and managing a massive Palestinian refugee influx that fundamentally altered the economy it was tasked with stabilizing.
The Board's mandate was always understood to be temporary; the Central Bank of Jordan replaced it in 1964, at which point these notes were progressively withdrawn. Early P#3 examples are meaningfully scarcer than later printings within the same issue run.