ISRAEL 

KM 118

SHORT COINS

ENCYCLOPAEDIA

                

Face Value Diameter mm Weight g Thickness mm Edge Composition Rotation
5 shequalim 24.0 6.1   Milled Aluminum-Bronze Medal
Obverse Reverse
Double cornucopia with pendant ribbon, the emblem of the State of Israel, title of state in Hebrew, Arabic and English.

 Origin of motif: coin from the period of John Hyrcanus I (135 - 104 B.C.E.). John Hyrcanus (Yohanan Girhan) (died 104 BCE) was a Hasmonean (Maccabeean) leader of the 2nd century BC.

The denomination "5" between two stars; "sheqalim" in Hebrew and English, the year of minting (JE5744 = AD1984) in Hebrew.

Alexander Jannaeus was the first of the Jewish kings to introduce the "eight-ray star" or "eight-spoked wheel" symbol, in his bronze "Widow's mite" coins.