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5 Dinars
| Issuer | Jordan Currency Board |
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| Year | 1949 |
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| Currency | Dinar (1949-date) |
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| Obverse lettering | المملكة الاردنية الهاشمية خمسة دنانير (Translation: The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan 5 Dinars) |
| Reverse description | Central vignette of the Treasury of the Pharaoh (Al-Khazneh) at Petra, rendered in intaglio within a classical columned frame. The English title of the issuer runs across the top panel, with the denomination in words and numerals flanking the central scene. Decorative guilloche panels with geometric rosettes fill the left and right margins, and the printer's imprint appears at the base. |
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Jordan's Currency Board — a transitional authority established to manage the country's monetary affairs following separation from the Palestinian pound zone — issued this note in 1949, the year the Board itself was formally constituted. Thomas De La Rue printed the series in London under tight postwar conditions, at a moment when the Hashemite Kingdom was simultaneously absorbing the West Bank and managing a massive Palestinian refugee influx that fundamentally altered the economy it was tasked with stabilizing.
The Board's mandate was always understood to be temporary; the Central Bank of Jordan replaced it in 1964, at which point these notes were progressively withdrawn. Early P#3 examples are meaningfully scarcer than later printings within the same issue run.