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2 New Shekels King Solomon and The Queen Of Sheba
| Issuer | Bank of Israel |
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| Year | 2021 |
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| Weight | 31.1 g |
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| Obverse script | Hebrew, Arabic, Latin |
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| Mint | Holy Land Mint |
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This coin belongs to Israel's long-running Biblical Art series, issued annually by the Bank of Israel through the Government Coins and Medals Corporation. The Solomon and Sheba subject draws on 1 Kings 10, in which the Queen of Sheba arrives in Jerusalem to test Solomon's wisdom — a narrative shared across the Hebrew Bible, the Quran, and the Ethiopian Kebra Nagast, where she is named Makeda and considered an ancestor of the Solomonic dynasty.
The GCMC has issued silver commemoratives continuously since the 1950s, making it one of the oldest state mint programs in the modern Middle East. KM#580 is catalogued as a proof issue with a reported mintage ceiling of 1,800 pieces.