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10 Israeli Pounds Sir Moses Haim Montefiore

Issuer Bank of Israel
Year 1973
Type Standard circulation banknote
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Reverse description A vignette of the Jaffa Gate with the Tower of David in the Old City of Jerusalem occupies the central field. The issuer name 'Bank of Israel' appears in trilingual inscription in Hebrew, English, and Arabic, with the denomination numeral '10' rendered in both Western and Arabic-Indic digits at either side.
Reverse lettering 10 ١٠ בנק ישראל Bank of Israel بنك إسرائيل
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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.

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