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.
A documented account-unit or currency-system transition supports this predecessor identity; not admitted from a specimen or inherited label alone.
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.
Sources and qualifications →Dated evidence, not exact birth or extinction dates.
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.
C1535Dated observations, not a proven complete lifespan.
Jordan’s dinar succeeded the locally circulating Palestine pound in 1950.
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.
Sections 1 and 4
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
Full PDF and substantive primary-law transcription inspected.
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.
Currency Order 1927 sections 1 and 4; Krus/Schuler Palestine section
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
Full PDF and substantive primary-law transcription inspected.
Currency Order 1927 sections 1 and 4; Krus/Schuler Palestine section
Underlying annual reports and ordinances not independently inspected.
Gambia coin date conflicts with the indexed central-bank account.
Institutional liquidation is not currency termination.
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.
Currency Ordinance sections 1–4; Bank Notes Ordinance sections 7 and 13
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
English translation reproduced contemporaneously, not the original Hebrew gazette.
Currency Ordinance sections 1–4; Bank Notes Ordinance sections 7 and 13
Underlying annual reports and ordinances not independently inspected.
Gambia coin date conflicts with the indexed central-bank account.
Institutional liquidation is not currency termination.