Below, find images of an Israel 1 Agora 1963. The coin exhibits coin alignment rather than medal alignment. To attribute the item fully, it appears one needs to determine if the coin is struck at Bern Switzerland or at Tel Aviv Israel. Can a member indicate how this is determined?
From the info I found at numista there doesn't seem to be different mints for the coin. There is a difference as to coin/medal orientation, but no mint information. Here's the link to the page, hope it offers some help... https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces977.html
Neat. I have 2 examples of the same Coin Alignment in my collection. I acquired them from a coin collector in Israel together with a few other errors..
Thanks to cwart, Razz and paddyman98 for responding. It appears I have found my answer in Sylvia Haffner’s book “THE HISTORY OF MODERN ISRAEL’S MONEY 1917-1970”, page 64-- ‘Rotated Dies’. It was generously lent to me by a friend. She states (I’m paraphrasing) that all coins of Israel are struck in Medal alignment and that the inverted reverse 1 Agora of 1963 was struck at Tel Aviv in error with an estimated mintage of 10,000…however, it is possible that some of the inverted mintage may have been struck at Berne and that it is not possible to know the number struck at Berne nor to distinguish which mint struck the coin in hand. Again, many thanks to all those who responded!
