500 Israeli Pounds David Ben-Gurion

500 Israeli Pounds (David Ben-Gurion) - obverse500 Israeli Pounds (David Ben-Gurion) - reverse

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Features

Issuer Israel
Period State of Israel (1948-date)
Type Standard banknote
Year 1975
Value 500 Israeli Pounds (לירות) (500 ILP)
Currency Pound (1960-1980)
Composition Paper
Size 153 × 76 mm
Shape Rectangular
Demonetized 31 March 1984
Number
N#
205529
References P# 42
Tracy L. Schmidt (editor); 2019. Standard Catalog of World Paper Money. Modern issues 1961-present (25th edition). Krause Publications, Iola, Wisconsin, United States.
And 2 more volumes.

Obverse

Portrait of David Ben-Gurion the 1st Prime Minister of Israel; the library at kibbutz Sde Boker; the library at kibbutz Sde Boker; the denomination "Five Hundred Israeli Pounds" and "Bank of Israel" in Hebrew.​

Lettering:
500
חמש מאות לירות ישראליות

בנק ישראל
התשל"ה 1975

Translation:
Five Hundred Israeli Pounds
Bank of Israel

Reverse

The Golden Gate in the Old City of Jerusalem; "Bank of Israel" in Hebrew, English and Arabic.​

Lettering:
500
٥٠٠
בנק ישראל
Bank of Israel
بنك إسرائيل

Printer

Royal Joh. Enschedé (Koninklijke Joh. Enschedé, Johan Enschede en Zonen), Haarlem, Netherlands (1703-date)

Comments

Series IV of the Pound
Jewish and Israeli Personalities
1973 - 1975

Signatures:​ Governor of the Bank Moshe Sanbar; Chairman of the Advisory Council David Horowitz.​

Watermark:​ Profile of David Ben-Gurion.​

Sign for the blind: A black oval in the lower left-hand corner of the front.​

Colour of serial numbering: Black.

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Other Information:


Top Left: Portrait of David Ben-Gurion (obverse)
Top Right: View of Kibbutz Sde Boker in the Negev Desert along with the Library and burial sites for David Ben-Gurion and his wife Paula. (obverse)
Bottom: The now sealed Golden Gate entrance to The Old City of Jerusalem (reverse)

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Date VG F VF XF AU UNC
1975  $ 4.00 5735 תשל"ה)

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