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  • 2 Mils 1927-1947, KM# 2, Mandatory Palestine
  • 2 Mils 1927-1947, KM# 2, Mandatory Palestine
Description

Mandatory Palestine was a geopolitical entity established between 1920 and 1923 in the Middle East roughly corresponding the region of Palestine, as part of the Partition of the Ottoman Empire under the terms of the British Mandate for Palestine.

During the British Mandate period the area experienced the ascent of two major nationalist movements, one among the Jews and the other among the Arabs. The competing national interests of the Arab and Jewish populations of Palestine against each other and against the governing British authorities matured into the Arab Revolt of 1936–1939 and the Jewish insurgency in Mandatory Palestine, before culminating in the Civil War of 1947–1948. The aftermath of the Civil War and the consequent 1948 Arab–Israeli War led to the establishment of the 1949 cease-fire agreement, with partition of the former Mandatory Palestine between the newborn state of Israel with a Jewish majority, the Arab West Bank annexed by the Jordanian Kingdom and the Arab All-Palestine Protectorate in the Gaza Strip under Egypt.

Obverse

Palestine in Hebrew, English and Arabic and date in Arabic and English below.

For the Hebrew lettering of Palestine "פלשתינה" there is a small acronym after it in brakes "(א"י)", which is shortened for "ארץ ישראל" (Land of Israel), the name used since biblical times to the present by the Jewish people for the geographical area that made up the lands of ancient Judea and later the State of Israel.

فلسطين
PALESTINE
(פלשתינה(א"י
1927
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Reverse

A branch of olive tree divided value in Arabic and English numerals and surround by Hebrew, English and Arabic letters.

מילים • TWO MILS • ملان
2 ٢

Edge

2 Mils

KM# 2 Schön# 2
Characteristics
Material Bronze
Weight 7.8 g
Diameter 28 mm
Thickness 1.6 mm
Shape round
Alignment Medal
Mint
Royal Mint

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