The new coins were the first to bear the new state's name, and the banknotes had "The Anglo-Palestine Bank Limited" written on them | It is subdivided into 100 |
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The profile of the labourer | A tactile set of dots was used, with three on the five pound note, two on the 10 pound note, one on the 50 pound note, none on the 100 pound note, and a large bar the length of three dots on the 500 pound note |
The Aramaic tekel, similar to the Hebrew shekel, used in during the according to the and defined as weighed, shares a common root with the word shekel and may even additionally attest to its original usage as a weight.
25All coins and banknotes issued in Israel before June 1952 were part of the | The money changers assaulted by in the are those who exchanged worshippers' baser common currency for such shekels and they have been suggested as a possible coin used as the "" in the |
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Like the Palestine pound, the Israeli pound was pegged to the at par | The Israeli pound was subdivided into 1000 prutot |
However, the official international currency code of the Israeli new shekel is ILS, as set by the International Organization for Standardization under ISO 4217.
23There were 1, 5, 10 and 25 agorot pieces | The profile of the pioneers |
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In 1968, 100 lirot notes were introduced, followed by 500 lirot notes in 1975 | Passage from the and the |