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1 Lira Hanukkah - Italian lamp
| Issuer | Bank of Israel |
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| Year | 1963 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse lettering | חנוכיה מאיטליה - המאה הי``ז |
| Reverse description | The numeral '1' appears prominently at the top of the field, beneath which the Hebrew denomination 'לירה ישראלית' (Israeli Pound) is rendered in bold, interlocking stylized characters occupying the central field. Below, the country name appears in Hebrew ('ישראל') and Arabic ('اسرائيل'), with the Jewish calendar year 'תשכ"ג' and the Gregorian year flanking a central dot along the lower rim. |
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Israel's annual Hanukkah coin series began in 1958 as a deliberate cultural project, with each year's issue featuring a lamp design drawn from a different Jewish diaspora community. The 1963 choice — an Italian Hanukkah lamp — reflects the ancient Romaniote and later Sephardic Jewish presence in the Italian peninsula, communities whose distinct lamp forms diverged sharply from the more familiar Polish or Yemenite styles documented elsewhere in the series.
KM#38 was struck in relatively modest quantities compared to later issues in the program, as the series had not yet built its collector following abroad.