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50 Palestine Pounds
| Issuer | Anglo-Palestine Bank Limited |
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| Year | 1948-1952 |
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| Currency | Palestine Pound (1948-1949) |
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| Obverse lettering | 50 בנק אנגלו-פלשתינה בע`מ תל-אביב ישלם למוכ`ז חמשים לירות א`י הבנק יקבל השטר הזה לשלם תשלום בכל חשבון שהוא THE ANGLO-PALESTINE BANK LIMITED WILL PAY TO THE BEARER FIFTY PALESTINE POUNDS TEL-AVIV LEGAL TENDER FOR PAYMENT OF ANY AMOUNT מטבע חוקית לתשלום כל סכום שהוא THE BANK WILL ACCEPT THIS NOTE FOR PAYMENT IN ANY ACCOUNT |
| Reverse description | The reverse mirrors the obverse in overall composition, with dense guilloche geometric patterning as the sole decorative and security element. The bank title and denomination "Fifty Palestine Pounds" appear in Arabic and English, with Eastern Arabic numeral corner pieces reading "٥٠". The complete legal tender and account-acceptance clauses are inscribed in both languages in a symmetrical layout devoid of pictorial imagery. |
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The Anglo-Palestine Bank Limited was a commercial institution, not a central bank — yet it found itself issuing currency for the nascent State of Israel after the British Mandate collapsed in May 1948 and the Palestine pound became an immediate political liability. These notes were a stopgap, issued under emergency authorization while the Bank of Israel was being established and a new currency, the Israeli pound, prepared for introduction.
The 50-pound denomination was the highest in the series, and at that value saw little street circulation. The ABNC printing is characteristically fine, but the real interest here is juridical: notes of this type were legal tender under two successive governing authorities within their short window of issue.