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5 Palestine Pounds Provisional Issue
| Issuer | Anglo-Palestine Bank Limited |
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| Year | 1948 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Emergency uniface provisional issue printed in brown letterpress on plain white paper, bearing trilingual text in Hebrew, English, and Arabic throughout. The bank name THE ANGLO-PALESTINE BANK LIMITED is centered across the upper portion, with serial number prefixes at upper left and lower right, and the denomination FIVE PALESTINE POUNDS rendered in all three languages surrounding a small central numeral vignette. A manuscript date of 16 May 1948 and place of issue Tel Aviv appear at upper right, accompanied by two handwritten authorizing signatures at lower left. |
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| Obverse lettering | בנק אנגלו-פלשתינה בערבון מוגבל THE ANGLO-PALESTINE BANK LIMITED بنك الانجلو فلسطين محدود الضمان PAY TO BEARER שלם למוסר / ارفعوا لحامله חמש לירות ארץ-ישראליות FIVE PALESTINE POUNDS خمسة جنيهات فلسطينية בערבון מוגבל תל-אביב / 16 MAY 1948 |
| Reverse description | The reverse is intentionally blank, with no printed design; only a faint offset ghost impression of the obverse letterpress text is visible through the thin paper stock, consistent with the uniface emergency construction of this provisional wartime issue. |
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