Catalog
5 Israeli Pounds
| Issuer | Bank of Israel |
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| Year | 1955 |
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| Reference(s) | P#26 |
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| Reverse description | An abstract geometric underprint fills the central field, overlaid with the denomination and issuing authority inscriptions in both Arabic and English, with guilloche border work framing the composition. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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The 1955 series was Bank of Israel's first fully sovereign issue, replacing the notes of the Anglo-Palestine Bank that had carried the young state through its opening years. Thomas De La Rue handled the printing — a predictable choice for a new central bank establishing credibility quickly, though the relationship with De La Rue would not last indefinitely as Israel later developed domestic printing capacity.
Watermark security only, by modern standards a thin specification, but consistent with what De La Rue was producing for comparable newly independent issuers at the time. Pick 26 is the more common survivor of the series; the higher denominations are considerably harder to locate in any condition.