5 New Agorot Piedfort Proof Set Issue, with Star of David

Piedfort coinage — struck at twice the standard planchet thickness — entered Israeli numismatic production as a deliberate collector strategy during the early 1980s, when the Bank of Israel was aggressively expanding its proof program to generate foreign currency revenue. Inflation in Israel during this period was catastrophic, reaching over 400% annually by 1984, which made the export-oriented collector market functionally more stable than domestic circulation economics.

The Star of David privy distinguishes these from the standard piedfort proofs issued concurrently across the same date range.