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5 Dinars - Hussein Treasury of Petra
| Issuer | Central Bank of Jordan |
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| Year | 1969 |
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| Diameter | 31 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | الحسين بن طلال المملكة الأردنية الهاشمية ٥ خمسة دنانير ١٣٨٩ |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Jordan's 1969 gold commemorative series was issued to draw international attention to Petra at a moment when the Hashemite Kingdom was aggressively promoting tourism as an economic stabilizer following the catastrophic loss of the West Bank in the 1967 Six-Day War. The Treasury facade — Al-Khazneh — had become the flagship image of that campaign.
The .900 fineness places this squarely in the older continental gold standard rather than the .917 crown gold tradition, a deliberate choice that aligned these pieces with the European commemorative market Jordan was courting.