Jordan - 5 Dinar 1949 (Series 1952) - SPECIMEN - PMG 63 - Signature #3

Jordan - 5 Dinar 1949 (Series 1952) - SPECIMEN - PMG 63 - Signature #3 These notes are like the preceding issues, but the text in the banner on the back has been changed by removing the second instance of the word THE, and the portrait has been changed to that of King Hussein bin Talal, whose reign began 11 August 1952 following the abdication of his father, King Talal, due to mental illness. Diagonal black SPECIMEN and DLR oval ovpts; horizontal black SPECIMEN No. # ovpt lower left; all-zero s/n. Observe: Arabic text; King Hussein Reserve: English text; rock-cut architecture of Al Khazneh (The Treasury) at Petra archaeological site. No security thread. Watermark: King Hussein. Printer: THOMAS DE LA RUE & COMPANY, LIMITED. 169 x 88 mm. Paper. Pick: P7as