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20 New Shekels The Train to Jerusalem
| Issuer | Israel Coins and Medals Corporation |
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| Year | 2020 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Reverse description | The reverse depicts a panoramic composition celebrating Jerusalem's urban and historical landscape. In the foreground, a modern high-speed train advances to the right, representing the Tel Aviv–Jerusalem railway line. Behind it, three iconic Jerusalem landmarks are rendered in fine detail: a contemporary glass-and-steel terminal building at left, the historic Montefiore Windmill at center, and a stone-facade Ottoman-era building at right. The denomination "20" appears prominently in the upper right field, accompanied by trilingual inscriptions identifying the value and date in Hebrew, Latin, and Arabic. Along the lower rim, the fineness inscription reads "1 OZ. FINE GOLD .9999" in Latin and "1 אונקייה זהב טהור 9999" in Hebrew. The city name JERUSALEM / ירושלים / القدس arcs across the upper portion of the field. |
| Reverse script | Arabic, Hebrew, Latin |
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The Jerusalem railway line, inaugurated in 1892 by a French concession company — the Société du Chemin de Fer Ottoman de Jaffa à Jérusalem et Prolongements — was the first railway built in Ottoman Palestine. The engineering was brutal: the line climbs roughly 800 meters through the Judean Hills over just 87 kilometers, requiring tight curves and steep grades that slowed trains to a crawl and made the route commercially marginal almost from the start.
The original Jaffa–Jerusalem line was abandoned for passenger traffic in 1998. A separate high-speed rail link beneath the Judean Hills, decades in the making, finally opened in 2018.