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1 New Sheqel Tel Megiddo
| Issuer | Bank of Israel |
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| Year | 2012 |
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| Value | 1 New Sheqel |
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| Obverse script | Arabic, Hebrew, Latin |
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| Reverse description | The reverse depicts the celebrated water tunnel of the ancient Canaanite water system at Tel Megiddo, rendered in fine detail to evoke its archaeological grandeur. A jug unearthed during excavations at the site is featured alongside the tunnel motif as a secondary design element. The site's name appears in three scripts — Latin ('TEL MEGIDDO'), Hebrew ('תל מגידו'), and Arabic ('تل مچدو') — distributed across the field. The UNESCO World Heritage Site emblem and the Israel UNESCO Commission emblem are also present, affirming Megiddo's inscription on the World Heritage List. |
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Tel Megiddo — the site that gave the world the word "Armageddon" — was added to the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2005 as part of the Biblical Tels grouping alongside Hazor and Beer Sheba. This coin is part of Israel's long-running archaeological sites series, which the Bank of Israel has used since the 1990s to document excavation work at nationally significant digs. Megiddo itself has been continuously excavated since the Oriental Institute of Chicago began systematic work there in 1925, uncovering over twenty distinct occupation layers reaching back to the Chalcolithic period.
The University of Tel Aviv resumed large-scale excavation in 1994 under Israel Finkelstein, whose stratigraphic revisions to the site's Solomonic-era attributions remain contested.