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100 Palestine Pounds
| Issuer | Palestine Currency Board |
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| Year | 1927-1939 |
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| Reference(s) | P#11 |
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| Obverse lettering | Palestine Currency Board One Hundred Pounds מאה לירות مائة جنيه |
| Reverse description | The reverse is laid out with intricate guilloche underprint patterns framing the central denomination panel, which bears the value of 100 Pounds rendered in English, Hebrew, and Arabic. A vignette of the Tower of David (Citadel of Jerusalem) occupies a prominent position within the design, executed in detailed intaglio style consistent with De La Rue production of the period. |
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The Palestine Currency Board was a British colonial instrument, established under the Palestine Currency Order of 1927 to issue a currency tied one-for-one to sterling. The 100 Pound denomination was the highest in the series — far beyond the reach of ordinary daily commerce in Mandatory Palestine — and functioned primarily as a reserve and interbank instrument rather than anything that passed through market hands.
De La Rue's printing for this series is considered among their finer interwar work. Surviving examples are rare; the 1948 collapse of the Mandatory administration and the abrupt withdrawal of Palestinian currency from circulation meant most high-denomination notes were either redeemed through official channels or simply lost in the chaos of partition.