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10 Israeli Pounds Sir Moses Haim Montefiore
| Issuer | Bank of Israel |
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| Year | 1973 |
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| Currency | Pound (1960-1980) |
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| Obverse description | At left, an intaglio portrait vignette of Sir Moses Haim Montefiore (1784–1885) in three-quarter view. The central and right portion of the note carries a vignette of the Mishkanot Sha'ananim quarter in Jerusalem, incorporating the Montefiore windmill and the adjacent guesthouse building. Denomination and issuer inscriptions in Hebrew appear across the face, with the value numeral '10' repeated at left and right. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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This note belongs to the second series issued by the Bank of Israel, which ran from the early 1950s through the mid-1970s — a period of chronic inflation that would eventually make the entire pound denomination obsolete. The Israeli pound was replaced by the shekel in 1980 at a rate of 10:1, itself later replaced by the new shekel in 1985. By the time this note was in active circulation, its purchasing power had already eroded substantially.
Enschedé's involvement with Israeli currency printing ran across multiple series. Paul Kor and Adrian Senger were both staff engravers at the Haarlem facility, working within the house tradition of intaglio portraiture for which the firm had been known since the eighteenth century.