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1 Sheqel - 1978 - P43 - B420 - UncSCWPM.#43 - TBB.#B420a - Date: 1978 (1980) Grade: Unc. - Signature: 5 Description: - Colour: Pink, purple, and brown. - Front: Mishkenot Shaananim quarter in Jerusalem; philanthropist Moshe Montefore; windmill. Back: Jaffa Gate. - No security thread. - Watermark: Moshe Montefore. - Printer: (JEZ). Size: 135 x 76 mm. - Material: Paper. General information: 1978 - 1979 Sheqel Issues On 4 June 1969, the Knesset passed a law to replace the lira with the sheqel because the former unit of currency was derived from the Palestine lira of the British Mandate period, and the term lira was also used as a unit of currency in other countries. Te sheqel appears in the bible as the unit of weight used during the period of the Second Temple. However, because conditions prevailing in the 1960s were not deemed ripe for change, implementation of the law was postponed to a later date. In May 1978, the time had come to implement the new law and to replace the lira with the sheqel. The new series of note...
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20 New Sheqalim - 2008 - P59b - B436bSCWPM.#59b - TBB.#B436b - Date: 2001 (2003) Grade: Unc. - Signature: 12 Description: Colour: Green. - Front (vertical): Moshe Sharett; flag raising at United Nations; text of Sharett speech. Back (vertical): Tower and Stockade settlement; Jewish Brigade volunteers during WWII; extract from Sharetts radio address. - Solid security thread. - Watermark: Moshe Sharett. - Printer: unknown. - Size: 138 x 71 mm. - Material: Paper. Moshe Sharett geboren als Moshe Shertok was de tweede premier van Israël. - Sharett werd geboren in Rusland in 1894 als Moshe Shertok. - Hij emigreerde in 1906 naar Palestina. - Zijn familie behoorde tot de oprichters van de stad Tel-Aviv Moshe Sharett (Hebrew: משה שרת ) - born Moshe Shertok (Hebrew: משה שרתוק) 16 October 1894 - 7 July 1965, was the second Prime Minister of Israel (1954 55), serving for a little under two years between David Ben Gurion's two terms. General information: 1998 - 2014 New Sheqel Series B Issues In 1999, a new series of notes was intro...
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100 New Sheqalim - 2007 - P61c - B438cSCWPM.P61c - TBB.B438c - Date: 2007 Grade: Unc. - Signature: 13 Description: Colour: Brown. - Front (vertical): Yitzhak Ben Zvi; interior of Presidential residence; extract of Ben Zvi speech. - Back (vertical): Galilee village and synagogue of Pekiin; extract of Ben Zvi speech from second inauguration. Solid security thread. - Watermark: Yitzhak Ben Zvi. - Printer: Unknown. - Size: 138 x 71 mm. - Material: Paper. Yitzhak Ben Zvi, second president of Israel.
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20 Sheqalim - 2008 - P64 - B440a - UncSCWPM.#64 - TBB.#B440a - Date: 2008 Grade: Unc. - Signature: 13 Stanley Fischer (May 2005 - June 2013) - Aharon Fogel Description: - Colour: Green. - Front (vertical): Moshe Sharett; flag raising at United Nations; text of Sharett speech; Star of David. - Back (vertical): Tower and Stockade settlement; Jewish Brigade volunteers during WWII; extract from Sharetts radio address. - No security thread. - Watermark: Moshe Sharett. - Printer: (NPA). - Size: 138 x 71 mm. - Material: Polymer. Moshe Sharett geboren als Moshe Shertok was de tweede premier van Israël. - Sharett werd geboren in Rusland in 1894 als Moshe Shertok. - Hij emigreerde in 1906 naar Palestina. - Zijn familie behoorde tot de oprichters van de stad Tel-Aviv Moshe Sharett (Hebrew: משה שרת ) - born Moshe Shertok (Hebrew: משה שרתוק) 16 October 1894 - 7 July 1965, was the second Prime Minister of Israel (1954 55), serving for a little under two years between David Ben Gurion's two terms. General information: 2008 Issues The 2...
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20 Sheqalim - 2008 - P63 - CommemorativeSCWPM.P63 - TBB.B441a - Commemorative Date: 2008 - Grade: Unc. - Sign. 13 Red overprint on back: Sixty years to the State of Israel (in Hebrew) Stanley Fischer (May 2005 - June 2013) - Aharon Fogel Description: Colour: Green. - Front (vertical): Moshe Sharett; flag raising at United Nations; text of Sharett speech; Star of David. - Back (vertical): Sixty Years to the State of Israel in Hebrew; Tower and Stockade settlement; Jewish Brigade volunteers during WWII; extract from Sharetts radio address. - No security thread. - Watermark: Moshe Sharett. - Printer: (NPA). - Size: 138 x 71 mm. - Material: Polymer. Moshe Sharett (Hebrew: משה שרת ) - born Moshe Shertok (Hebrew: משה שרתוק) 16 October 1894 - 7 July 1965, was the second Prime Minister of Israel (1954 55), serving for a little under two years between David Ben Gurion's two terms. General information: 2008 Commemorative Issues In honor of Israels 60th Independence Day celebrations, a limited edition of 1.8 million polymer 20 new s...
