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| Issuer | Israel |
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| Year | 1954 |
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| Thickness | 2.27 mm |
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| Obverse script | Hebrew, Arabic |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Israel's 100 Pruta went through a quiet but telling materials change: earlier issues were struck in copper-nickel, but by 1954 the state had shifted to nickel-clad steel, reflecting both cost pressures and the broader austerity of the Tzena period — the strict rationing regime that governed Israeli economic life well into the early 1950s. The pruta itself was a deliberate revival of an ancient monetary unit, last used in Hasmonean and early Roman-period Judaea, chosen by the new state to signal continuity with pre-exile Jewish coinage traditions.