Why is Baron Rothschild on the half sheckel? I looked on Ebay and find Rothschilds face on a half sheckel.
Baron Edmond de Rothschild the modern secular Jewish return to the Land of Israel, beginning in the 1880s.
http://www.ramat-hanadiv.org.il/en/content/generalpage/baron-edmond-de-rothschild-1845-1934