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Evidence coverage: 1927–1950. This is the span of collected observations, not the currency’s lifetime.
This record includes associated currencies and earlier interpretations. The article selects the evidence relevant to its own history.
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Palestine pound
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A documented account-unit or currency-system transition supports this predecessor identity; not admitted from a specimen or inherited label alone.
One scoped currency identity. Changes to subdivisions, scale, standard, instruments or issuers do not by themselves create children. A distinct account unit can remain a successor.
Dated observations: 1927–1950; this does not establish the entire lifetime.
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Historical account researchThe Palestine Currency Order defines a pound of 1,000 mils and makes it the presumptive unit of contracts, sales, payments and monetary instruments; Egyptian-pound obligations have an express conversion rule.
Sources and qualifications → Account-unit observations
Dated evidence, not exact birth or extinction dates.
1927supportedThe Palestine Currency Order defines a pound of 1,000 mils and makes it the presumptive unit of contracts, sales, payments and monetary instruments; Egyptian-pound obligations have an express conversion rule.
C1535
Evidence & research notes 4 claims
Dated observations, not a proven complete lifespan.
Supported C1113
Jordan’s dinar succeeded the locally circulating Palestine pound in 1950.
Supported C1535
The Palestine Currency Order defines a pound of 1,000 mils and makes it the presumptive unit of contracts, sales, payments and monetary instruments; Egyptian-pound obligations have an express conversion rule.
Palestine Currency Order 1927; reproduced by Howard M. Berlin · The Palestine Currency Board: Its History and Currency (EconSciences, 2025), Appendix C Citation S877 ·
Open source ↗Sections 1 and 4
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Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
Full PDF and substantive primary-law transcription inspected.
Supported C1708
The Palestine pound succeeded Egyptian-pound accounting locally: the 1927 Currency Order establishes the new default contractual unit and expressly permits discharge of Egyptian-pound obligations at 1 Palestine pound = 0.975 Egyptian pound. Currency issue began 1 November 1927, with the Egyptian-cash transition continuing into March 1928.
Palestine Currency Order 1927; reproduced by Howard M. Berlin · The Palestine Currency Board: Its History and Currency (EconSciences, 2025), Appendix C Citation S877 ·
Open source ↗Currency Order 1927 sections 1 and 4; Krus/Schuler Palestine section
Source access and limitations
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
Full PDF and substantive primary-law transcription inspected.
Nicholas Krus and Kurt Schuler · Currency Board Financial Statements, Studies in Applied Economics No.22 (December 2014) Citation S189 ·
Open source ↗Currency Order 1927 sections 1 and 4; Krus/Schuler Palestine section
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Underlying annual reports and ordinances not independently inspected.
Gambia coin date conflicts with the indexed central-bank account.
Institutional liquidation is not currency termination.
Supported C1709
Israel's 1948 Currency Ordinance substitutes the Israel pound for existing and future Palestine-pound references, and the Bank Notes Ordinance exchanges notes at the same numerical amount. This is a documented regional account succession at parity; it does not imply termination of the Palestine pound in Jordan or Gaza in 1948.
Government of Israel; English translations reproduced by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System · New Currency System in Israel, Federal Reserve Bulletin, December 1948 Citation S878 ·
Open source ↗Currency Ordinance sections 1–4; Bank Notes Ordinance sections 7 and 13
Source access and limitations
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
English translation reproduced contemporaneously, not the original Hebrew gazette.
Nicholas Krus and Kurt Schuler · Currency Board Financial Statements, Studies in Applied Economics No.22 (December 2014) Citation S189 ·
Open source ↗Currency Ordinance sections 1–4; Bank Notes Ordinance sections 7 and 13
Source access and limitations
Underlying annual reports and ordinances not independently inspected.
Gambia coin date conflicts with the indexed central-bank account.
Institutional liquidation is not currency termination.