Catalog
50 Dinars
| Issuer | Central Bank of Jordan |
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| Year | 1994 |
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| Size | 149 × 74 mm |
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| Obverse description | An intaglio portrait of King Hussein II in kuffiyeh occupies the right of the note within an arched vignette, set against an arabesque underprint in brown and blue tones with intricate guilloche borders framing the composition. Arabic inscriptions across the upper field identify the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan and the Central Bank of Jordan, with the denomination in Arabic numerals at lower left and upper right. Two signature lines for the Governor and Minister of Finance appear below the central text panel. |
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| Reverse lettering | THE HASHEMITE KINGDOM OF JORDAN CENTRAL BANK OF JORDAN RAGHADAN PALACE FIFTY DINARS 1414 H 1994 |
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Jordan's 50 Dinar note was the highest denomination in regular circulation during the mid-1990s, a period when the kingdom was still absorbing the economic aftershocks of the 1990–91 Gulf crisis — the mass expulsion of Jordanian workers from Gulf states had collapsed remittance income and briefly pushed the dinar into free fall before IMF stabilization measures took hold.
Thomas De La Rue's long relationship with the Central Bank of Jordan dates to the earliest post-independence issues. The P#32A carries a single watermark as its primary security feature, relatively restrained by the standards De La Rue was already applying to other clients' high-value notes by 1994.