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1/2 Dinar
| Issuer | Central Bank of Jordan |
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| Year | 1992-1993 |
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| Value | 1/2 Dinar (1/2 JOD) |
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| Obverse lettering | البنك المركزي الأردني ورقة نقد صادرة بموجب قانون البنك المركزي الأردني نصف دينار المحافظ - وزير المالية (Translation: Central Bank of Jordan A banknote issued according to the law of the Central Bank of Jordan Half Dinar Governor - Minister of Finance) |
| Reverse description | A vignette of the Umayyad desert castle Qusayr Amra occupies the right portion of the note, rendered in warm tones against a guilloche-patterned underprint. Denomination numerals are placed at far right and repeated in the upper and lower left corners. The Islamic calendar year appears at the upper left and the Gregorian year at the lower left. |
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Jordan's half-dinar denomination has a troubled history in the series — the small physical size relative to higher denominations made it awkward in practice, and public preference for coins in this value range eventually rendered paper issues redundant. The 1992–1993 dates on P#23 place it near the end of meaningful half-dinar note production for the Central Bank.
Thomas De La Rue's involvement is unremarkable for the region — virtually every Jordanian note series of this period came out of their London works. The watermark is the sole mechanical security feature, modest even by early-1990s standards.