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10 Dinars
| Issuer | Central Bank of Jordan |
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| Year | 1959 |
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| Value | 10 Dinars |
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| Obverse description | The left portion of the note carries a portrait of King Hussein II in a dark suit, set against a vignette of the port of Aqaba with cranes and a vessel at dock, backed by distant hills. Arabic inscriptions identify the issuing authority at the top, with the denomination عشرة دنانير in bold Arabic script at centre. Intricate guilloche borders frame all four sides, with the numeral 10 repeated in the lower corners. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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Jordan's first post-Hashemite Kingdom currency series launched in 1959 following the dissolution of the Arab Federation, a short-lived political union between Jordan and Iraq that collapsed after the Iraqi revolution of July 1958. The Central Bank itself had only been established that same year, replacing the Jordan Currency Board — so this note belongs to the very first series issued under the new institution's authority.
Thomas De La Rue handled the printing, as they did for the majority of newly independent Arab states in this period. The watermark is the sole security feature — modest even by late-1950s standards, but consistent across the series.