DECIMAL OF POUND
NEW PALESTINE COINAGE
(British Official Wireless.)
RUGBY, 16th March
It is officially announced from Jerusalem that the new Palestine currency will appear this year on the basis of a deeimai division of tho English pound sterling. The Palestine pound, which will be equivalent to the £1 sterling, ,will be divided into one thousand mils. Coins will bear only an olive wreath or sprig, and the denomination in English and Arabic, but tho notes " will bear pictorial decoration also. An interesting feature of the coins themselves will be that they are beaded in imitation of ancient currencies.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 64, 17 March 1927, Page 9
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99DECIMAL OF POUND Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 64, 17 March 1927, Page 9
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