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100 Pruta
| Issuer | Israel |
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| Year | 1954 |
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| Value | 100 Prutas (100 פרוטות) (0.100 ILP) |
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| Obverse description | Central device comprising a tall date palm tree with spreading fronds and clusters of fruit at the trunk, rendered in fine relief against a flat field. The country name appears in Hebrew (ישראל) above the tree along the upper arc, and in Arabic (اسرائيل) below the tree along the lower arc. The coin is bordered by a ring of 136 beads close to the rim, a distinguishing characteristic of the KM#18 variety. |
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| Obverse lettering | ישראל اسرائيل (Translation: Israel) |
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Israel's early coinage program was shaped by acute metal shortages and foreign exchange constraints in the young state's first decade. The shift to nickel-clad steel for this denomination reflected those pressures directly — solid nickel was simply too expensive to sustain at scale. The Palestine pound had been replaced by the Israeli pound in 1952, and the pruta series was still being refined both metallurgically and politically as the government debated long-term monetary architecture.
KM#18 is noted for occasional weak clad adhesion on circulation strikes, a byproduct of the steel-cladding technology available to the Kremnica and other contract mints supplying Israel at the time.