100 Mils ("carpet"), fractional paper currency. 1948. Pick# 7
Obverse: denomination, mosaic floor of the ancient Beit Alfa Synagogue, and signature of Israeli Minister of Finance Eliezer Kaplan (in print).
Reverse: denomination and the mosaic floor of the ancient Beit Alfa Synagogue.
AU.

Three banknotes issued by Bank Leumi Le-Israel [1952]:
1. 1 Israel Pound. Pick# 20.
VF. Pressed.
2. 5 Israel Pounds. Pick# 21.
EF.
3. 10 Israel Pounds. Pick# 22.
VF.

Nine banknotes of the "Landscape Series", the first series of the Israeli Pound, issued in the years 1955-1957.
Complete series, excluding Pick# 28b (the road to Jerusalem, with red serial number.)
1. One 500 Pruta banknote – Pick# 24 (ruins of the ancient synagogue at Bir'am in the Upper Galilee.)
VF.
2. One 1 Israeli Pound (Lira) banknote – Pick# 25 (View of Upper Galilee.)
F+
3. One 5 Israeli Pounds banknote – Pick# 26 (Negev landscape.)
VF (pressed.)
4-5. Two 10 Israeli Pounds banknotes (View of the Jezreel Valley.)
Pick# 27a – XF, minor soiling / Pick# 27b – VF.
6-9. Four 50 Israeli Pounds banknotes – Pick# 28a (The road to Jerusalem.) The 50 Israeli Pounds banknotes were issued in 1957.
General condition VF-VF+; banknotes intact, untreated, and without graffiti.

Certificate, given as proof of payment of 10 kronen, to the "Vereines für colonisation Palästinas Ahavath Zion" [Society for the colonization of Palestine Ahavath Zion]. Tarnów, late 19th century. German.
Hand-filled certificate, issued to a member of the "Ahavath Zion" society. Frame decorated with Stars of David, Hebrew verses and three small illustrations (palm trees, an agricultural colony, and the Western Wall.) Official inked stamp. Austrian revenue stamp.
The "Ahavath Zion" society was founded in Vienna by a group of students from Lviv and Tarnów; its goal was to organize a group of Jews, intending to emigrate from Galicia to Palestine. In 1891 the society purchased lands in the vicinity of Rosh Pinah, were it established the colony of "Mahanayim."
The society's regulations (Lviv, 1896; Hebrew) state: "each member who will contribute ten Kronen to the society's treasury, will receive a 'share certificate' […] the serial numbers of the shares will be put in a raffle box […] the member whose number, or numbers, are drawn, will earn the right to offer the committee [the name of] one colonist, within thirty days after the raffle draw."
Approx. 24X31 cm. Good condition. Fold line. Some stains. Minor blemishes. Traces of glue to upper margin of verso.