20 New Shekels Rachel Bluwstein

Features

Issuer	Israel
Issuing bank	Bank of Israel (בנק ישראל)
Period	State of Israel (1948-date)
Type	Standard circulation banknotes
Years	5777-5781 (2017-2021)
Calendar	Hebrew
Value	20 New Sheqalim 20 ILS = USD 6.96
Currency	New Shekel (1986-date)
Composition	Paper
Size	129 × 71 mm
Shape	Rectangular
Number	N# 202322
References	P# 65 Standard Catalog of World Paper Money (10 volumes). , TBB# 442 Owen W. Linzmayer. The Banknote Book (4 volumes).

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Series: Bank of Israel, series VIII: Hebrew poets

Obverse

Dark red print on multishade red, orange, and pink underprint.
A portrait of Rachel the Poetess (Rachel Bluwstein Sela) against a background of palm tree fronds at right. Golden book printed in colour-shifting ink at left above large denomination.

Script: Hebrew

Lettering:
שקלים
חדשיםㅤ20 בנק ישראל

בנק ישראל

רחל המשוררת התרנ"א (1890) - התרצ"א (1931)

Translation:
20 New Shekels, Bank of Israel
Rachel the Poet 1351 (1890) - 1931 (1931)

Reverse

Dark red print on multishade red, orange, and pink underprint; serial numbers brown and black.
At left, a classic view of the Lake Kineret shoreline. Inspired by the poem “Kineret”. Also lines from Rachel the Poetess’s poem “Kineret” and lines from her poem “And Perhaps It Never Happened…”

Scripts: Arabic, Hebrew, Latin

Lettering:
Bank of Israel
20 New Shekels

شيكلا جديد
بنك إسرائيل

הוֹי, כִּנֶּרֶת שֶׁלִּי, הֶהָיִית, אוֹ חָלַמְתִּי חֲלוֹם

Translation: Oh, my canary, have you been, or have I had a dream?

Watermark

Portrait of Rachel the Poetess and electrotype denomination 20

Signatures

Karnit Flug (KF)	Governor
Amir Yaron (AY)	Governor

Printer

Orell Füssli, Zürich, Switzerland (1519-date)

Comments

More information on the banknotes of the Third Series of the Israeli New Shekel can be found on the Bank of Israel's website here.

UV activity:

Security thread:

Windowed into three sections on the reverse side, when seen under a backlight, the inscriptions of “20” and busts of Rachel the Poetess are repeated throughout.

The security thread has a multicolour tone, the colours switch between copper brown, gold, and lime green when the note is tilted.

The golden book is printed in colour shifting ink - changes colours between gold, yellow, and lime green along with a rolling bar effect when the banknote is tilted in different angles:

The hologram stripe on the right side of the obverse side contains menorahs and repeated denominations 20. It changes colours when the note is tilted:

Denomination 20 is preforated into the banknote:

Latent image in the bottom-left corner of the reverse side - denomination 20 can be seen when looked at closely or the note is tilted:

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Date	Signatures	F	VF	XF	AU	UNC	References	Frequency
Undetermined
5777 (2017)	KF	$ 6.10	$ 6.20	$ 6.40	$ 7.30	$ 9.60	P# 65a Standard Catalog of World Paper Money (10 volumes).	75%
5781 (2021)	AY		$ 5.80	$ 6.10	$ 6.30	$ 9.30	P# 65b Standard Catalog of World Paper Money (10 volumes).	22%

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