Features

Issuer Israel

Period State of Israel (1948-date)

Type Standard circulation coin

Year 5709 (1949)

Calendar Hebrew

Value 1 Pruta (0.001 ILP)

Currency Pound (1949-1960)

Composition Aluminium (Aluminium 97%, Magnesium 3%)

Weight 1.3 g

Diameter 21 mm

Thickness 1.59 mm

Shape Round

Technique Milled

Orientation Medal alignment ↑↑

Demonetized 22 February 1980

Number N# 2042

References KM# 9, Schön# 2

Obverse

Anchor; "Israel" in Hebrew and Arabic.

The design is based off of a coin of Alexander Jannaeus (76-103 BCE).

Lettering:

ישראל

اسرائيل

Reverse

The denomination "1 Pruta" and the date in Hebrew; two stylized olive branches around the rim.

Lettering:

1 פרוטה

תש'ט

Translation:

1 Pruta

1949

Edge

Smooth

Mints

Heaton and Sons / The Mint Birmingham Limited, United Kingdom (1850-2003)