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10 Dinars - Abdullah I
| Issuer | Jordan Currency Board |
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| Year | 1949 |
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| Currency | Dinar (1949-date) |
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| Obverse description | Blue intaglio print on a fine guilloche underprint. Portrait vignette of King Abdullah I in three-quarter view at right, wearing a white turban. Arabic inscriptions at centre and upper field, with the denomination numeral 10 in ornamental panels at left and right. Serial number printed twice in red. |
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| Reverse description | Blue intaglio print on a guilloche-patterned underprint. Central vignette of the Treasury of Petra (Al-Khazneh), rendered in fine line engraving with its classical Nabataean rock-cut facade and flanking columns. The denomination numeral 10 appears in large guilloche panels at left, with serial number in red at upper left and lower right. Decorative geometric and floral border frames the entire design. |
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Jordan's Currency Board was established only in 1950, which makes the 1949 date on this note a point of genuine interest — the series was authorized and prepared under the mandate's closing arrangements before the Board formally began operations, reflecting the scramble to establish monetary infrastructure in the immediate aftermath of Transjordan's 1946 independence and the chaos of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.
De La Rue's engraving quality on this series is among the finer work they produced for the Arab world in this period. The paper shows a pronounced tendency to brown along folds in circulated examples — a known characteristic of this issue, not damage.