Sunday, December 25, 2011

Israel P-38

Country or State: ISRAEL
Currency: Israeli lira (ILP)

P-38
Value: 5 lirot
Issued by: Bank of Israel
Date: 1973

Features
 Obverse:
Henrietta Szold (1860-1945), a U.S. Jewish Zionist leader and founder of the Hadassah Women's Organization. In 1942, she co-founded Ihud, a political party in Mandate Palestine dedicated to a binational solution. 

Reverse:
The Lions' Gate or St. Stephen's Gate, located in the Old City Walls of Jerusalem and is one of seven open Gates in Jerusalem's Old City Walls. 

Watermark: Henrietta Szold

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