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25 Agorot Bank of Israel
| Issuer | Bank of Israel |
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| Year | 1980 |
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| Value | 25 Agorot (0.25 ILP) |
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| Obverse description | Central device depicts a stylized three-stringed lyre (kinor), a traditional ancient Israelite instrument, rendered in high relief against a flat field. The lyre motif is the standard emblem used on Israeli agorot coinage of the pound series. The Hebrew legend YISRAEL (ישראל) appears along the lower right, with the Arabic equivalent (اسرائيل) along the left side of the coin, flanking the central device. A Star of David appears as a decorative separator element within the inscriptions. |
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| Obverse lettering | ישראל اسرائيل ✡ |
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The 1980 reissue of the 25 Agorot came as Israel was overhauling its currency system in response to inflation that had been accelerating since the Yom Kippur War's economic aftermath. The shekel series introduced that year replaced the pound at a 10:1 ratio, making these agorot subdivisions technically new denominations attached to a currency that would itself become obsolete within five years.
By 1985, the New Israeli Shekel reform rendered the entire first shekel series demonetized.