Five Hundred Israeli Lirot - Golden Gate

Five Hundred Israeli Lirot - Golden Gate / Ben Gurion
Gate Series
Silver/999, 5 grams

The Gate Series replaced the Notable Personalities Series in 1975, the previous banknotes were large, which made them inconvenient to use and subject to great wear and tear. The new series featured smaller notes in which all the denominations were uniform width. This also made them suitable for use in automatic cash machines.
It was the first to incorporate a special mark enabling the blind to identify the denomination of the banknote by touch. On the back of the notes, a binary code was imprinted in invisible ink, for the purpose of automatic recognition. Continuing devaluation also made it necessary to issue banknotes of higher denominations.
This was the first series to have a banknote with a face value of 500 Lirot. It too continued the tradition of portraits of notable personalities in Jewish history appearing on the front of the banknotes.
On the reverse, representing the unification of Jerusalem after the Six-Day War, are some of the gates in the wall around the Old City of Jerusalem: the Lions’ Gate, Jaffa Gate, Damascus Gate, Zion Gate and the Golden Gate.

Details taken from "Banknotes and Coins of Israel 1927-2006", published by the Bank of Israel (edited by Yigal Arkin), by courtesy, the Bank of Israel.

Israel Coins and Medals Corp. is proud to present this unique series, which is the seventh in a number of series representing the banknotes that were in use in the State of Israel over the years. Each of the banknotes in this exciting series has been produced by innovative technology, enabling production of a paper-thin, flexible pure silver note with a 5-gram weight.

Limited Edition - 1,800 only