Israeli Coin - Now With Larger Pictures

I speak hebrew but I'm gonna need a bigger picture than that

The coin type (KM# 157) was issued 1985 to 2002. The year is the line of lettering beneath the "5". It's hard to read from that pic, but I think it says "5745", which in our calendar is 1985 AD.

The coin is popular with collectors because it's a "coin on a coin" - it shows an ancient Judaean coin of the First Revolt, circa 69 AD (Hendin# 670). The ancient script says simply "Year Four".

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the hebrew says isreal on the second pic and on the first pic it says hatishmilah probobly means five cents...

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"hatishmilah" is actually the Hebrew letters "Hay Taf Shin Mem (apostrophe) Hay."

Hay= 5 (thousand), Taf=400, Shin=300 (400+300=700), Mem=40, Hay=5. This is how the year in the Jewish calendar is written. This is 5745, corresponding to 1985.

Frequently, when writing Hebrew, the year is abbreviated to the last 4 Hebrew letters, i.e., the last 3 English digits, when discussing the current millennium.

That is to say, that the letter Hay, corresponding to 5 (thousand) is not commonly written (except on certain documents, currency, etc.). For instance, this current year (5768) is called Taf Shin Samech Ches, which literally means (Taf=400, Shin=300 (400+300=700), Samech=60, Ches=8) 768. The 5 (thousand, the 5th millennium) is self-understood.

However, when writing in English, the whole year is always written out fully, i.e., 5768.

BTW, the year in the Jewish calendar dates back to Adam & Eve, i.e., the creation of Mankind, or alternatively to the Creation of the universe. There is some discussion whether the "Six Days of Creation" were six actual days of 24 hours (the more commonly held view), or represented six millennia or Epochs.

That was very interesting. Thank you!