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5 Israel Pounds
| Issuer | Bank Leumi Le-Israel B.M. |
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| Year | 1952-1954 |
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| Value | 5 Israeli Pounds (5 לירות) (5 ILP) |
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| Obverse lettering | 5 בנק לאומי לישראל בע"מ ישלם למוכ"ז חמש לירות ישראליות הבנק יקבל השטר הזה לשלם תשלום בכל חשבון שהוא מטבע חוקית לתשלום כל סכום שהוא (Translation: Bank Leumi Le-Israel B.M. Will pay to the bearer Five Israel Pounds The bank will accept this note for payment in any account Legal tender for payment of any amount) |
| Reverse description | The reverse is similarly typographic in character, with guilloche underprint patterns filling the background field. The central panel presents the bank name and denomination in both Arabic script and English, with the numeral "5" at each corner. No pictorial vignette is present; the design relies entirely on ornamental borders and underprint work. |
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Bank Leumi Le-Israel B.M. — formally the Anglo-Palestine Bank until its 1951 renaming — issued this series under a peculiar legal arrangement: the bank held commercial status while functioning as the de facto central bank, a situation that persisted until the Bank of Israel was established in 1954. These notes were accordingly issued in the transitional window before proper central banking authority existed in the young state.
The American Bank Note Company contract for this series was part of a broader pattern of early Israeli currency being produced abroad while domestic printing infrastructure was still undeveloped. ABNC's engraved intaglio work on this series is notably finer than the later Bank of Israel issues that followed almost immediately after.