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10 New Sheqalim Binding of Isaac

Issuer Bank of Israel
Year 1995
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Weight 17.28 g
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Edge Milled
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Mintage 5755 (1995) מ - - 1,209
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This piece belongs to Israel's long-running gold commemorative program, and the 1995 Binding of Isaac issue draws on one of the more charged subjects in that series — the Akedah, Genesis 22, which carries distinct resonance in Israeli civic memory given its frequent invocation in connection with wartime sacrifice and national loss. The interpretation is neither straightforward religious commemoration nor purely artistic; Israeli commemorative coinage of this period was deliberately positioned in international collector markets to generate foreign currency revenue for the state.

Struck at the government's own facility, the Israel Government Coins and Medals Corporation handled production under contract arrangements that changed several times through the 1990s.

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