20 Lirot 12th Anniversary of Independence - Theodore Herzl Centenary

Features

Issuer	Israel
Period	State of Israel (1948-date)
Type	Non-circulating coins
Year	5720 (1960)
Calendar	Hebrew
Value	20 Israeli Pounds (20 לירות) (20 ILP)
Currency	Pound (1949-1960)
Composition	Gold (.9166)
Weight	7.988 g
Diameter	22 mm
Shape	Round
Technique	Milled
Orientation	Medal alignment ↑↑
Demonetized	23 February 1980
Number	N# 89459
References	KM# 30 Standard Catalog of World Coins (86 volumes).

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Commemorative issue

Israel's 12th Anniversary of Independence - Theodore Herzl Centenary 5720-1960

Series: Israel Independence Day

Obverse

In the center, the Israel State Emblem and around it in the border, the face value "Twenty Israeli Lirot" in Hebrew. Around the lower border, the years 5620-5720 1860-1960.

Scripts: Arabic, Hebrew, Latin

Lettering:
ישראל
ISRAEL اسرائيل
עשרים לירות ישראליות
תרך-תשך 1860-1960

Translation:
Israel
20 Israel Lirot
5620-5720 (1860-1960)

Designer: Miriam Kroli

Reverse

In the upper right a portrayal of Theodore Herzl in an incuse rectangle with rounded corners. In the lower border, center, is the Israel State Emblem and left, in Hebrew, "It is no legend", part of Herzl's famous saying: "If you will it, it is no legend".

Script: Hebrew

Lettering:
אין זו אגדה
ישראל

Translation:
It is no legend
Israel

Designer: André Lasserre

Edge

Milled

Translation:
Twelfth Year of the State of Israel
Centenary of Herzl's Birth

Mint

Bern, Switzerland (1225-date)

Comments

The Israel 12th Anniversary Coin honored the 100th anniversary of the birth of Theodore Herzl, the Herzl Centenary.
"If the Jewish people desire it, then they will have their own State", wrote Benjamin Ze'ev Herzl in his book 'The Jewish State". He aroused the collective will of a nation and raised the dreams of redemption on the road to political realization. In September 1897 Herzl wrote: "In Basel I founded the Jewish State. Perhaps in five years, but certainly in 50 years, everyone will be convinced of this." On November 29, 1947, exactly fifty years later, the General Assembly of the United Nations passed a resolution recommending the establishment of an independent Jewish State.

Minted at the Bern Swiss Federal Mint (Switzerland) with no mintmark.

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Date			Mintage		VG	F	VF	XF	AU	UNC
Undetermined
5720 (1960)			10 460							$ 1000		תש״כ

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Actual gold weight: 0.235 oz

Current gold price: 4330.84 USD/oz (see gold price

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