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5 Dinars Great Arab Revolt
| Issuer | Central Bank of Jordan |
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| Year | 2016 |
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| Currency | Dinar (1949-date) |
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| Obverse script | Arabic/Latin |
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| Reverse description | The reverse depicts a dynamic equestrian scene in high relief showing Arab horsemen charging across a desert landscape, led by a prominent rider in the foreground mounted on a white horse and bearing a bandolier. A standard-bearer in the middle ground carries the colorfully enameled Arab Revolt flag — rendered in applied color with horizontal bands of black, white, and green with a red triangle — aloft on a tall pole. Rocky desert terrain is suggested in the background on both sides. The curved legend '100th ANNIVERSARY OF' appears along the upper field, and 'THE GREAT ARAB REVOLT' is inscribed in the lower field. |
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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.