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50 Palestine Pounds Provisional Issue

Emittent Anglo-Palestine Bank Limited
Jahr 1948
Typ Standard circulation banknote
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Vorderseitenbeschreibung Printed entirely in blue on white paper in a cheque-style uniface format, the obverse carries the trilingual bank name — in Hebrew, English, and Arabic — reading 'THE ANGLO-PALESTINE BANK LIMITED' across the centre. The denomination '50' appears in large numerals flanked by currency symbols at left and right, with the value stated as 'FIFTY PALESTINE POUNDS' and its equivalents in Hebrew ('חמשים לירות ארץ-ישראליות') and Arabic ('خمسون جنيهات فلسطينية'). The upper portion bears a date stamp reading 'תל-אביב, י' אייר תש"ח / 16 מאי 1948', a serial number field marked 'No 000000' at upper left and lower right, and two manuscript signatures with a printed signature attribution in Hebrew at lower left.
Vorderseitenlegende בנק אנגלו-פלשתינה בערבון מוגבל
THE ANGLO-PALESTINE BANK LIMITED
بنك الانجلو فلسطين محدود الضمان
שלם למוכ"ז / ادفعوا الحامل
PAY TO BEARER
חמשים לירות ארץ-ישראליות
FIFTY PALESTINE POUNDS
خمسون جنيهات فلسطينية
בפקודת ההנהלה
בנק אנגלו-פלשתינה בערבון מוגבל
רשום עוש"י
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The Anglo-Palestine Bank's 50 Pounds provisional issue of 1948 is one of the more historically charged pieces in twentieth-century Levantine paper money. When the British Mandate collapsed and the State of Israel declared independence in May 1948, there was no central bank and no sovereign currency ready to deploy. The Anglo-Palestine Bank — a commercial institution — was pressed into emergency service as a quasi-central monetary authority, issuing these notes as a stop-gap before the Bank of Israel and the Israeli pound could be formally established.

The high denomination made this note rare in ordinary hands. At 50 Pounds, it was not a note the average resident would handle, and surviving circulated examples are genuinely uncommon.

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