1 Lira

The Israeli lira was already under quiet inflationary pressure during this issue's production run, a slow erosion that would accelerate through the 1970s and ultimately end in the currency's replacement by the shekel in 1980. This denomination bore the brunt of everyday commerce — bus fares, market transactions, municipal fees — and circulated hard enough that uncirculated survivors are genuinely scarce relative to lower-denomination contemporaries.