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1/2 Lira Feast of Purim
| Issuer | Bank of Israel |
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| Year | 1961-1962 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse lettering | אסרائיל • ישראל • תשכ״א חצי לירה ישראלית (Translation: Israel 5721 (1961) Half Israeli Lira) |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Issued to mark Purim, one of the most publicly celebrated holidays in the Jewish calendar, this piece belongs to a short run of commemorative fractional coins produced by the Bank of Israel in the early 1960s when the young state was still actively building its numismatic identity through holiday-themed issues. The series drew on a roster of Jewish festivals as a deliberate cultural project, not a monetary one — circulation was never the point.
KM#31 is frequently encountered with uneven luster from inconsistent planchet preparation at the Berne mint, where several Israeli issues of this period were produced under contract.