Auction 83 - Part I - Rare and Important Items
1160 Bank Notes – All Prefixes used in Bank of Israel Bank Notes – Rare Collection
Opening: $14,000
Estimate: $18,000 - $25,000
Sold for: $35,000
Including buyer's premium
1160 bank notes with prefixes – all the prefixes used in Bank of Israel bank notes. Israel, 1950s-60s.
In the 1950s and 1960s, the Bank of Israel issued Israeli lira (pound) bank notes that featured prefixes – a letter, or combination of a letter and digit, appearing to the left or right of the unique serial number of each separate bank note.
The prefixes appeared on Israeli lira bank notes belonging to the first three series, namely the Landscapes Series (Series A), the Allegoric Figures Series (Series B), and the Personalities Series (Series C). On bank notes issued later in time, prefixes did not appear next to the serial numbers. Independent research conducted by bank note collectors revealed that a sum total of 1160 different prefixes were printed; the bank notes bearing prefixes were documented by the collector Rafi Nahum in a booklet (in Hebrew) entitled "The Prefixes and Series in the Bank Notes of Israel 1927-2004" (2005, enclosed).
The present collection – assembled meticulously over a period of almost 20 years – includes each and every one of the 1160 different prefixes. A collection as exhaustively complete as this is exceedingly rare.
1160 bank notes, including: • 16 500-perutah bills, 1955. • 16 one-Israeli-lira (pound) bills, 1955. • 18 5-Israeli-lira bills, 1955. • 33 10-Israeli-lira bills, 1955. • Two 50-Israeli-lira bills, 1955. • 42 one-half-Israeli-lirabills, 1958. • 147 one-Israeli-lira bills, 1958. • 41 5-Israeli-lira bills, 1958. • 101 10-Israeli-lira bills, 1958. • 64 50-Israeli-lira bills, 1960. • 298 5-Israeli-lira bills, 1968. • 64 10-Israeli-lira bills, 1968. • 93 50-Israeli-lira bills, 1968. • 225 100-Israeli-lira bills, 1968.
Condition varies. Roughly 70% of the bank notes are in AU-UNC Condition. Detailed information regarding the condition of the various bank notes will be submitted upon request.
In the 1950s and 1960s, the Bank of Israel issued Israeli lira (pound) bank notes that featured prefixes – a letter, or combination of a letter and digit, appearing to the left or right of the unique serial number of each separate bank note.
The prefixes appeared on Israeli lira bank notes belonging to the first three series, namely the Landscapes Series (Series A), the Allegoric Figures Series (Series B), and the Personalities Series (Series C). On bank notes issued later in time, prefixes did not appear next to the serial numbers. Independent research conducted by bank note collectors revealed that a sum total of 1160 different prefixes were printed; the bank notes bearing prefixes were documented by the collector Rafi Nahum in a booklet (in Hebrew) entitled "The Prefixes and Series in the Bank Notes of Israel 1927-2004" (2005, enclosed).
The present collection – assembled meticulously over a period of almost 20 years – includes each and every one of the 1160 different prefixes. A collection as exhaustively complete as this is exceedingly rare.
1160 bank notes, including: • 16 500-perutah bills, 1955. • 16 one-Israeli-lira (pound) bills, 1955. • 18 5-Israeli-lira bills, 1955. • 33 10-Israeli-lira bills, 1955. • Two 50-Israeli-lira bills, 1955. • 42 one-half-Israeli-lirabills, 1958. • 147 one-Israeli-lira bills, 1958. • 41 5-Israeli-lira bills, 1958. • 101 10-Israeli-lira bills, 1958. • 64 50-Israeli-lira bills, 1960. • 298 5-Israeli-lira bills, 1968. • 64 10-Israeli-lira bills, 1968. • 93 50-Israeli-lira bills, 1968. • 225 100-Israeli-lira bills, 1968.
Condition varies. Roughly 70% of the bank notes are in AU-UNC Condition. Detailed information regarding the condition of the various bank notes will be submitted upon request.
All Prefixes in Bank of Israel Banknotes
All Prefixes in Bank of Israel Banknotes