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Valued Member
Jordan
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hi friends >Is there a picture of the issuance of currency Palestine 1947 
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Here is a site with the types of coins produced by Palestine and the years they were produced. I notice that your message mentions currency but the title of your post mentions coins. I usually think of 'currency' as referring to paper money. I hope this helps, -wheatiefan
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 Australia
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Quote: I notice that your message mentions currency but the title of your post mentions coins. I usually think of 'currency' as referring to paper money. Outside of North America, "currency" retains its original definition: money that is in circulation - coins, notes, postage stamps, bottles of rum, whatever was actually used for money in that society. Paper money is usually referred to as "banknotes" or simply "notes". It's only in the past couple of decades that the definition of "currency" in America has changed. As for the OP's question, I couldn't find any examples of 1947-dated coins online, either.
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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no joy on ebay. I understand that a complete set of all denominations and all years is 59 coins: I've started, but I'm nowhere near finished.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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The reason you probably can't find much is that virtually all 1947's were melted down. It looks like the remaining coins range from just a single 2 Mil and 10 Mil known, three 5 Mils, and five one Mils. According to Krause the British Museum is your best shot to see them as they have at least the 2 and 10.
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Valued Member
 Jordan
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Thank you for the answer I asked for this issued of the 1947 coins, some people told me that he is in some catalogs, but this issued destruction before circulation by the British authorities, I hope you put a picture of this issued 1947 from the catalog if you have to provide thank you
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Sorry, I don't have any images. What I know about them comes from my price guide on world coins (i.e. Krause). The only images they have are from earlier years. Any other images I might find would come from the internet, but if you can't find them there I doubt I will either.
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Australia
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I found a short article on the coinage of Palestine: "The legal framework governing the legal tender coins for the British Mandate of Palestine was initiated by the 1927 Palestine Currency Order. A memorandum relating to the new currency arrangement was published on March 1, 1927 by the Palestine government in its official gazette. The Currency Notes Ordinance 1927 was then passed in Palestine constituting as legal tender the currency that was to be issued by the Palestine Currency Board. The Order specified that the standard of currency for Palestine was to be the Palestine pound, divided into one thousand mils. This was similar to the decimal system in Egypt, based on 100 pilasters to the Egyptian pound, and unlike the typical British non-decimal currency system ... As required by Article 22 of the Mandate's charter from the League of Nations, it was necessary to show the name "Palestine" in three languages: English, Arabic, and Hebrew. Coins: The Palestine Currency Board, after consulting with the Mandatory government officials, decided that the coins should be in the denominations of 1 and 2 mils (bronze), 5, 10, and 20 mils (nickel-bronze with center hole), and 50 and 100 mils (silver with reeded, or milled edges). For the two highest denominations, the Board adopted, with the approval of the Secretary of State for the Colonies, an alloy of 720 parts silver and 280 parts copper. Although a gold coin equal to £1 was provided for in the Currency Order in a silver/gold ratio of 10.5:1, none were ever minted.
From their initial introduction on the eve on the tenth anniversary of the Balfour Declaration (November 1, 1927), the coins were minted as needed to meet public demands. Unlike the United States for example, coins were not struck with all the possible year dates from 1927 to the termination of the Mandate in 1948. In all, there were 59 different combinations of dates and denominations comprising the entire range of regularly issued coinage. The 1947-dated coins, which were not officially released for circulation, are not part of the total number accepted by collectors as to what constitutes a complete set of coins. After the termination of the Palestine Mandate and the creation of the State of Israel on May 14, 1948, the coins issued by the Palestine Currency Board remained legal tender in Israel until September 15, 1948; in the Gaza Strip region of Egypt until June 9, 1951; and in Jordan until June 30, 1951. Beyond these dates, the coins were demonetized. From Howard M. Berlin Book." I hope that this helps ...
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Valued Member
Israel
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Hello. Please note that no notes were made in 1947. There were some coins, almost all destoyed. There is one that I know of in a museum in London. Other than that I know of know collectors with this coin. 
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