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50 Palestine Pounds
| Issuer | Palestine Currency Board |
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| Year | 1927-1939 |
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| Currency | Pound (1927-1948) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse carries a central vignette of the White Tower of Ramle (also known as the Tower of the Forty Martyrs and the White Mosque), rendered in fine intaglio engraving. The issuer name 'Palestine Currency Board' appears in the upper portion of the note, with the denomination of fifty pounds expressed in three scripts — English, Hebrew, and Arabic — in accordance with the board's trilingual convention. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is dominated by an intricate guilloche underprint framing a central vignette of the Tower of David, the historic citadel at the entrance to the Old City of Jerusalem, rendered in detailed intaglio. The denomination is again inscribed in the three official languages — Hebrew, English, and Arabic — consistent with the board's standard trilingual format. |
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| Variants | P#10a - 01.09.1927 P#10b - 30.09.1929 P#10c - 07.09.1939 serial # with serifs P#10c(2)s - 07.09.1939 serial# without serifs; not issued - Specimen only do exist |
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