ISRAEL: GOLD COIN-TEL-AVIV-BAUHAUS, 2007 - 555 pcs ONLY

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ISRAELI GOLD COMMEMORATIVE COIN + CERTIFICATE THE WHITE CITY OF TEL AVIV FIRST COIN IN THE NEW "UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE SITES IN ISRAEL" SERIES 10 NIS, proof, 2007 year Gold (Au) 917 Weight: 16.96 gDiameter: 30 mmMaximum mintage: 555 pcs only !!! According to Israel Goverment Coins & Medals Corporation: Twelve sites in Israel have been declared by UNESCO as World Heritage Sites and, so far, four of these have been chosen as the features of the coins in this new series: The White City of Tel Aviv, Masada, Akko, and Tel Sheva, near Beer Sheva. The White City of Tel Aviv with its Bauhaus Architecture was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO, in 2003. This style of architecture was developed in Germany in the 1920s and it became popular in Tel Aviv in the 1930s. Today, Tel Aviv has the largest concentration in the world of buildings built in the Bauhaus "International Style" with more than 4,000 buildings built between the years 1931 – 1956. The term International Style was applied to the American form of Bauhaus architecture. These are low buildings, usually two to four floors, built as a single building on a plot of land and covered with light colored plaster. The buildings were used as residential and public structures. The coin depicts Tel Aviv's typical International Bauhaus Architecture characterized by its balconies read more

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