Calligraphic Authority and the Foundations of Jordanian Statehood 1.5 piastre

Stamps of Saudi Arabia, Overprint, “Government of the Arab East, 1342.” Overprinted issue on the stamps of the Hejaz issued in 1924. SG 127. In 1920 the British administration issued an EEF stamp with an overprinted Arabic inscription Sharqi Al Urdunn (East of Jordan). Before the establishment of Hashemite rule in Transjordan, these stamps referred to lands east of the Jordan River. In Transjordan, Palestinian, Hijazi and Syrian stamps were also used with the same inscriptions.