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2 New Sheqalim Shmuel Yosef Agnon
| Issuer | Bank of Israel |
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| Year | 2008 |
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| Weight | 28.8 g |
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| Obverse description | At center, a full-length silhouette of Shmuel Yosef Agnon standing in his characteristic hat, rendered in a stylized artistic manner against the field. The face value '2' appears prominently, with the denominations '2 שקלים חדשים' and '2 NEW SHEQALIM' inscribed in Hebrew and English respectively. The State Emblem of Israel is depicted, flanked by the country name 'ISRAEL' / 'ישראל' / 'إسرائيل' in Latin, Hebrew, and Arabic scripts along the right border. The mint year appears in both Gregorian (2008) and Hebrew calendar (התשס״ח) notation, along with a Hebrew-Arabic inscription referencing Agnon's Nobel Prize in Literature 1966. |
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| Obverse lettering | 2 שקלים חדשים NEW SHEQALIM מ إسرائيل ישראל ISRAEL⠂2008 התשס״ח شاي عچنون - جائزة نوبل للآداب ١٩٦٦ |
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Agnon remains the only Hebrew-language writer to have received the Nobel Prize in Literature, awarded in 1966. His acceptance speech in Stockholm was delivered partly in Hebrew — a deliberate act for a language that had only decades earlier been revived as a spoken tongue. This commemorative was issued on the 120th anniversary of his birth in Buczacz, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, now Buchach in western Ukraine.