Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
2 New Sheqel Yitzhak Rabin
| Issuer | Bank of Israel |
|---|---|
| Year | 1997 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Weight | Log in to see details |
| Diameter | Log in to see details |
| Thickness | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Technique | Log in to see details |
| Orientation | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | The State Emblem of Israel, a menorah flanked by olive branches, occupies the central field. The denomination '2 NEW SHEQELS / 2 שקלים חדשים' appears above and below the emblem in Hebrew and English, with 'ISRAEL / ישראל / اسرائيل' inscribed in Latin, Hebrew, and Arabic script. The Hebrew calendar year התשנ״ז and the Gregorian year 1996 are shown in the lower field, accompanied by the Hebrew mint mark letter מ (Mem) denoting the proof issue. |
|---|---|
| Obverse script | Log in to see details |
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | A facing portrait of Yitzhak Rabin dominates the central field, rendered in high relief with fine engraving detail. A circular border legend in Latin reads 'YITZHAK RABIN 1922 – 1995', accompanied by the corresponding Hebrew inscription 'יצחק רבין התרפ״ב – התשנ״ה' giving his name and life dates in both the Gregorian and Hebrew calendars. The composition commemorates the assassinated Israeli Prime Minister and Nobel Peace Prize laureate. |
| Reverse script | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Edge | Log in to see details |
| Mint | Log in to see details |
| Mintage | Log in to see details |
| Additional information |
Issued two years after Rabin's assassination at a Tel Aviv peace rally in November 1995, this commemorative was part of a broader Israeli state effort to anchor his memory in the immediate aftermath of the killing. Rabin had signed the Oslo Accords in 1993 and the peace treaty with Jordan in 1994 — both within a fourteen-month window — making his tenure among the most diplomatically active in the country's history before his murder by a right-wing Israeli student ended it abruptly.