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5 Dinars Great Arab Revolt
| Issuer | Central Bank of Jordan |
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| Year | 2016 |
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| Value | 5 Dinars |
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| Obverse description | The center of the obverse features a high-relief bust of Sharif Hussein bin Ali, leader of the Great Arab Revolt, facing slightly left, depicted wearing a traditional turban and robes with a full beard. The denomination '٥ دنانير' in Arabic and '5 Dinars' in Latin script appears to the right of the portrait in the inner field. The Arabic legend 'مائة عام على قيام الثورة العربية الكبرى' curves along the upper border of the outer ring, while the commemorative dates '1916 - 2016' are inscribed along the lower border in large Latin numerals. |
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| Obverse lettering | مائة عام على قيام الثورة العربية الكبرى ٥ دنانير 5 Dinars 1916 - 2016 (Translation: 100th Anniversary of the Great Arab Revolt 5 Dinars 1916 - 2016) |
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Jordan issued this denomination in 2016 to mark the centenary of the Great Arab Revolt of 1916, when Sharif Hussein bin Ali of Mecca launched an armed uprising against Ottoman rule with direct British encouragement and material support — most famously coordinated through T.E. Lawrence. The revolt's long-term gains fell far short of the pan-Arab state Hussein anticipated, as the Sykes-Picot Agreement had already carved up the region between Britain and France behind closed doors.
The Hashemite dynasty's claim to rule Jordan flows directly from that revolt, making this a genuinely dynastic commemoration rather than a detached historical one.