Mandate of Palestine
League of Nations Mandate under British Administration (1920-1948)
Location: Levant
Capital City: Jerusalem
Government type: League of Nations Mandate
Main languages: English, Hebrew, Arabic
Main religions: Judaism, Sunni Islam
Chronology
1920: Mandate of Palestine created from British-administered former Ottoman territory after WWI
1921-1948: Low-intensity civil war between Jews and Arabs after Arab attack on Jews in Jaffa
1936-1939: Arab revolt
1944-1948: Jewish revolt
1947: United Nations reccomends partitioning the Mandate into a Jewish state and an Arab one, full-on war breaks out after the Arabs reject the plan
1947-1948: First Arab-Israeli War/Israeli War of independence results in the former Mandate being partitioned between Israel, Egypt, and Jordan
Currency
Pound (1927-1948)
1 Pound = 1000 Mils
Coins from Mandatory Palestine in the collection
•1 Mil, 1943 (King George VI (1936-1948), bronze, London mint, KM#1)
•2 Mil, 1927 (King George V (1920-1936), bronze, London mint, KM#2)
•5 Mil, 1927 (King George V (1920-1936), cupronickel, London mint, KM#3)
•10 Mil, 1927 (King George V (1920-1936), cupronickel, London mint, KM#4)