Dating israeli coins
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Modern-Israel coins (after 1947 A.D.)
are dated using the Jewish calendar .
(Ancient Israel & Judaean coins were dated differently) .

The minting year of the coin is written with letters
from the modern-Hebrew Alphabet , and not with the usual digits .

To find out the year , you need to identify the letters
that form the year (there could be 3 or 4 or 5 letters) ,
and you need to find the "numerical value" of each letter .
The sum of this values is the year in the jewish calendar .


Jewish calendar (JE)
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The jewish calendar supposedly started at
the exact time when GOD created the world .

16 September 3760 B.C , just after 16:00 in the afternoon
(in case you were busy playing football , and didn't notice) .

So , if you want to know what is the Jewish
year in a certain A.D. year , just add 3760 .

For example : 2000 (A.D.) is the year 5760 in the Jewish calendar .


real - world
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Actually , the jews don't use numbers like 5760(JE) ,
instead , we treat the years as "words" .
The year "tav-shin-noon" happened ten years after "tav-shin-mem" ,
and "tav-shin-kaf-gimel" came right after "tav-shin-kaf-bet" .

In the calendar , the 7th month comes after the 6th month ,
but you can say that "july" comes after "June" ,
and by assigning a name to each month in the calendar ,
you can keep the order without using any numbers .

April is 3 months after January , and you don't need
to "translate" april into 4 , January into 1 ,
and do the substraction "4 - 1 = 3" , to find it out .


In the jewish calendar each year has a different "name" ,
and the jews know the order of the years without having
to "translae" these "year-names" into numbers .