100 Fils

Jordan's first coinage series, issued in 1949, predates the country's formal declaration of a constitutional monarchy by just one year — Abdullah I was assassinated in July 1951 before the series had fully embedded itself in everyday commerce. The Hashemite Kingdom had only existed under that name since 1949, having been Transjordan until April of that year, which makes this issue part of a remarkably compressed period of state formation.

The Royal Mint in London struck this series under contract, as Jordan had no domestic minting infrastructure of its own.