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100 Greatest Modern World Coins Series: Palestine 1931 Silver 100 Mils

Published 08/12/2026

A coin from a short-lived series and a complete collection roadblock is the star of our blog series this go around covering Whitman Publishing's 100 Greatest Modern World Coins. A key date and a rarity, authors Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker lead us through how this coin ended up on the top 100 list.

#96 – Palestine 1931 Silver 100 Mils

As part of the Palestine Mandate series that is comprised of 59 coins (not accounting for the Proofs). The 1931 100 mils is considered to be the rarest of the coins. There was a debate between numismatists who were trying to figure out if the 1931 or the 1934 was the reason for collectors' inability to complete the series for their collections. The 1934 had a mintage of just 200,000 pieces in circulation strike while the 1931 had 250,000. Both are rare, and both make it more...read more