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1/2 Israeli Pound Walks of Life - Pioneer Woman
| Issuer | Bank of Israel |
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| Year | 1958 |
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| Printer | Bank of Israel Currency Department, Jerusalem |
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| Obverse lettering | 1/2 בנק ישראל חצי לירה ישראלית התשי"ח 1958 (Translation: 1/2 Bank of Israel Half Israeli Pound 1958) |
| Reverse description | Central vignette of the entrance to the Tomb of the Sanhedrin in Jerusalem, the ancient supreme council and tribunal of Jewish governance, rendered with architectural detail. The issuer name 'Bank of Israel' appears in three languages — Hebrew, English, and Arabic — with the fractional denomination '1/2' printed on each side of the design. |
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The 1958 half-pound belongs to Israel's second banknote series, which replaced the interim currency issued under the Anglo-Palestine Bank before the Bank of Israel assumed full central banking authority. The "Walks of Life" series was a deliberate nation-building exercise — each denomination depicted a different occupational archetype drawn from the socialist-Zionist idealization of labor, agriculture, and settlement.
Printed entirely in-house by the Bank of Israel's own Currency Department, an unusual arrangement for a small central bank at the time. The half-pound denomination was the lowest in the series and saw heavy circulation, making genuinely uncirculated examples harder to find than the higher values.