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200 Prutah Kibbutz Alonim
| Issuer | Kibbutz Alonim |
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| Size | 99 x 44 mm |
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| Obverse description | Salmon-pink ground with black letterpress printing throughout. The large numeral "200" occupies the centre field, with the Hebrew denomination פרוטה (Pruta) to its left. The name of the kibbutz, אלונים, is repeated in Hebrew and in mirror-script along all four borders, forming a typographic frame; a vertical rule divides a narrow right panel carrying stacked Hebrew letters. |
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| Obverse lettering | אלונים – אלונים – אלונים פרוטה אלונים – אלונים – אלונים (right panel, vertical:) א ל ו נ י מ |
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Kibbutz scrip of this type circulated internally as a substitute currency during the British Mandate period, when individual kibbutzim managed their own closed economies and members had no need — or right — to hold personal cash. Alonim, founded in 1938 in the Lower Galilee, issued prutah-denominated tokens and notes to cover canteen purchases and small personal allocations within the community fence.
The prutah denomination itself is telling: it mirrors the official Israeli currency unit introduced in 1949, suggesting this note postdates independence, though many kibbutzim continued scrip systems well into the 1950s regardless of national monetary unification.