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1 Lira Hanukkah - 18th Century Lamp
| Issuer | Bank of Israel |
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| Year | 1964 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse description | Central device depicting an ornate 18th-century North African Hanukkah lamp (chanukiah) rendered in high relief, featuring an elaborately decorated backplate with Moorish-style arched filigree ornamentation, flanked by two smaller decorative oil vessels on either side. The lamp rests on a flat base and is surmounted by a ring finial at the apex of the backplate. A Hebrew legend curves along the lower portion of the field, reading: חנוכה בצפון אפריקה המאה הי"ח (Hanukkah in North Africa, 18th Century). |
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| Obverse lettering | חנוכה בצפון אפריקה המאה הי"ח |
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Israel's annual Hanukkah coin program, launched in 1958, rotates through historical lamp designs drawn from Jewish communities across the diaspora. The 1964 issue commemorates an 18th-century lamp style, part of a deliberate archival effort to document ritual objects scattered across Europe and North Africa — many from communities destroyed during the Holocaust less than two decades earlier.