Israel's 24th Independence Day issue, this coin commemorates the 1972 occasion when the official theme was Soviet Jewry — specifically the campaign to pressure the USSR into permitting Jewish emigration. The "Let My People Go" movement was then at its height, and the coin's release was a deliberate act of political solidarity with refuseniks still trapped behind the Iron Curtain.
KM#62 was struck in both proof and brilliant uncirculated formats at the Jerusalem mint, with the proof edition seeing considerably tighter production numbers.
Israel's 24th Independence Day issue, this coin commemorates the 1972 occasion when the official theme was Soviet Jewry — specifically the campaign to pressure the USSR into permitting Jewish emigration. The "Let My People Go" movement was then at its height, and the coin's release was a deliberate act of political solidarity with refuseniks still trapped behind the Iron Curtain.
KM#62 was struck in both proof and brilliant uncirculated formats at the Jerusalem mint, with the proof edition seeing considerably tighter production numbers.