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The £P1 gold coin would contain 123.27447 grains of standard gold. [7] The enabling legislation was the Palestine Currency Order, 1927, signed by the King in February 1927. [8] The Palestine pound became legal tender on 1 November 1927. [9]
Palestine is a polysemy refering to a geographical area (a.k.a among Jews: Land of Israel), a political entity under British mandate 1917-1948 and a political entity of Palestinian Arabs a.k.a West Bank and Gaza or The Palestinian Territories. Israel continued to use the Palestine pound until 1952, when it was replaced by the Israeli lira.
It replaced the mil, which was the 1000th part of the Palestine pound, a currency issued by the British Mandate of Palestine prior to May 1948. Pruta from the reign of Agrippa I. The word pruta was borrowed from Mishnaic Hebrew, in which it meant "a coin of smaller value".
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1 prutah coin. In modern times, the pruta was a denomination of currency in Israel. The prutah was introduced shortly after the establishment of the state of Israel, as the 1000th part of the Israeli pound. It replaced the mil, which was the 1000th part of the Palestine pound, a currency issued by the British Mandate of Palestine prior to May 1948.
The 1948 Palestinian ... The women embellished their headdresses with gold and silver coins from their bridewealth money. ... The British Museum holds over 1,000 pre ...
Palestinians commemorated the 1948 "Nakba" or catastrophe, on Wednesday, marking the time when hundreds of thousands were dispossessed of their homes in the war at the birth of the state of Israel ...
Later in 1949, coins were issued in denominations of 1, 5, 10, 25, 50, 100 and 250 prutah. The coins were conceived, in part, by Israeli graphic designer Otte Wallish. All coins and banknotes issued in Israel before June 1952 were part of the Palestine pound. In 1960, coins were issued denominated in agora. There were 1, 5, 10 and 25 agorot pieces.