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1 New Sheqel Hanukkah - Algerian Lamp
| Issuer | Bank of Israel |
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| Year | 1987 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse description | The obverse features the large numeral '1' prominently displayed in the right field, with the denomination legend 'שקל חדש' (New Sheqel) in Hebrew inscribed to its left. Below, the Latin legend 'NEW SHEQEL' arcs along the lower field, flanked by a six-pointed Star of David and the Hebrew year date 'תשמ"ז' alongside the Gregorian year '1986'. The State of Israel emblem — a menorah flanked by olive branches — appears at the top center, with the country name 'ישראל' in Hebrew arcing above and 'اسرائيل' in Arabic along the left border, and 'ISRAEL' in Latin along the lower left. |
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| Reverse script | Hebrew |
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Israel's annual Hanukkah coin series, launched in 1979, draws each year from a different diaspora community's lamp tradition. The 1987 issue highlights the Algerian Jewish community, whose distinctive brass lamps reflect centuries of North African craft practice developed under Ottoman and later French colonial rule. Algeria's Jewish population — present since antiquity and formalized as French citizens under the Crémieux Decree of 1870 — was stripped of that citizenship by Vichy authorities in 1940, then largely emigrated to France and Israel following Algerian independence in 1962.
The .850 fineness is specific to this series, slightly below sterling, a specification Israel maintained consistently across the Hanukkah issues of this decade.