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10 Lirot Let My People Go
| Issuer | Bank of Israel |
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| Year | 1971 |
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| Currency | Pound (1949-1960) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse presents a bold, modernist composition commemorating the struggle for Soviet Jewish emigration. The left two-thirds of the field is dominated by a stylized design of vertical bars or prison bars rendered in deep relief, evoking imprisonment and the plight of Jews behind the Iron Curtain, with the silhouette of a figure partially visible between the bars. To the right, the bilingual legend 'שלח את עמי' in Hebrew and 'LET MY PEOPLE GO' in Latin characters is inscribed in a stacked, emphatic arrangement, referencing the biblical injunction from Exodus and its modern resonance for Soviet Jewry. |
| Reverse script | Hebrew, Latin |
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Issued to mark the third anniversary of the Soviet Jewry movement's international campaign, this coin appeared as pressure on Moscow to permit Jewish emigration was reaching its first sustained peak. The phrase "Let My People Go" — borrowed from Exodus and adopted wholesale by the movement — had by 1971 become the slogan of organized protests across Western capitals. Israel's decision to put it on legal tender was a direct, deliberate provocation aimed at the Soviet government.
Mintage was split between circulation strikes and proof issues, with the proofs struck at the Jerusalem mint under contract arrangements common to Israeli commemoratives of this period.