25 Pruta

Features

Issuer	Israel
Period	State of Israel (1948-date)
Type	Standard circulation coins
Year	5709 (1949)
Calendar	Hebrew
Value	25 Prutas (25 פרוטות) (0.025 ILP)
Currency	Pound (1949-1960)
Composition	Copper-nickel (75% Copper, 25% Nickel)
Weight	2.8 g
Diameter	19.5 mm
Thickness	1.32 mm
Shape	Round
Technique	Milled
Orientation	Medal alignment ↑↑
Issued	4 January 1950
Demonetized	22 February 1980
Number	N# 2034
References	KM# 12 Standard Catalog of World Coins (86 volumes). , Schön# 7 Battenberg Gietl Verlag (publisher). Weltmünzkatalog. Battenberg Gietl Verlag, Regenstauf, Bavaria, Germany (4 volumes).

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Obverse

Grape cluster and country name in Hebrew and Arabic

Scripts: Arabic, Hebrew

Lettering:
ישראל
اسرائيل

Translation:
Israel
Israel

Reverse

Value and date in Hebrew within wreath

Script: Hebrew

Lettering:
25
פרוטה
תש'ט

Translation:
25
Pruta
5709

Edge

Reeded

Mints

	Heaton and Sons / The Mint Birmingham (Heaton and Sons / The Mint Birmingham Limited), United Kingdom (1850-2003)
•	Kings Norton Metal Company, Birmingham, United Kingdom (1890-1962)

Comments

Date of issue: 4th of January, 1950

Two British mints produced this coin:
1. Imperial Chemical Industries marked its production with a Mintsmall dot, nicknamed 'pearl'. It is under the horizontal connection between two olive branches at the bottom. In the mintage section these coins are in the line 5709 (1949) •
2. Heaton mint in Birmingham did not mark its coins.

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Date	Mintage	F	VF	XF	AU	UNC		Frequency
Undetermined
5709 (1949)	20 000						תש'ט (Proof)	2%
5709 (1949)	2 500 000	$ 0.86	$ 1.30	$ 1.50	$ 1.90	$ 1.90	תש'ט; Heaton (UK); see comments	50%
5709 (1949) •	10 520 000	$ 0.42	$ 1.00	$ 1.00	$ 1.00	$ 2.90	תש'ט; Imperial Chemical Industries (UK); see comments	60%

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