5 Fils

Jordan's first post-independence coinage, issued under the Hashemite Kingdom, was struck largely at the Royal Mint in London during a period when the Jordanian dinar was pegged to sterling. The 1967 date carries particular weight: the Six-Day War that year resulted in Israel's occupation of the West Bank, which had been under Jordanian administration, severing the kingdom from a significant portion of its own economic territory and population.