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250 Pruta Emergency Fractional Issue
| Issuer | Government of Israel |
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| Year | 1953 |
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| Currency | Pound (1949-1960) |
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| Obverse lettering | מדינת ישראל הצעת מטבע חוקית מאתים וחמשים פרוטה (Translation: State of Israel Legal tender Two-hundred and Fifty Pruta) |
| Reverse description | The reverse carries an intricate guilloche background centering a vignette of the Sea of Galilee with the Arbel mountain cliff visible at center right. The denomination numeral '250' is printed in the design. |
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Israel's fractional notes of 1953 were a stop-gap response to a chronic small-change shortage in the young state's currency supply. The pruta, the lowest subdivision of the Israeli pound, was simply too low in value to be minted economically in quantity, and vending and transit infrastructure demanded something workable. Paper filled the gap.
P#13 is among the more short-lived of the series — the fractional issues were withdrawn relatively quickly once coin production caught up, meaning genuinely circulated examples showing real wear are actually less common than their print runs might suggest.