Thread: Israeli coin date

I have the 2000something Israeli 10 Agorot KM# 158 with a date I can't figure out. The last letter in the date looks like a straight I and my Krause doesn't list that as a date. The date uses letters and is read from right to left incase anyone asks.

It looks like 5766 (2006). The last number may have a die fill on vav, and that could be why it looks like just a straight bar, or it could simply be a new font they are using.

That's what I thought. I know it's not a filled die. But it doesn't look like what they have in Krause.

The font in Krause is the one normally used for the alphabet and your general capital-letter writing style. For the coins though, it's always been standard to use the straight line as "vav", and in everyday handwriting 99% of ppl use the straight line as well. It's kind of like how most people write the english letter "a" as a circle with a tail type of thing, even though the one you type on the keyboard is a fancier version of it. I hope that made sense.

yep. what you are saying is accurate.

Here's 1986, 1996, and the 2006.