Other Medals & Tokens - Coin Auctions
Lot 0160a - Medals & Tokens Other Medals & Tokens - Historama SIGNIFICANT JUDAICA Mailbid SaleAustria: Hans Hirsch 60th birthday uniface medal (1878-1938), in bronze; by Arnold Hartig (1878-1972); size: 70mm; weight: 117.85g. Medal depicts left-facing bust of Hirsch (1878-1940); he was an Austrian (non-Jewish) historian and diplomat, a member of both the Austrian and German historical research institutes, and whose area of specialty was the monastic foundations of Germany in the 11th and 12th Centuries. In AU, with a few oxidation marks. Historama SIGNIFICANT JUDAICA Mailbid SaleMedals & Tokens Other Medals & Tokens |
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Lot 0166a - Medals & Tokens Other Medals & Tokens - Historama SIGNIFICANT JUDAICA Mailbid SaleGermany: Twenty Years Since Bismarck's Death, 1918, medal by Karl Goetz; high quality bronze cast (no rim marks); size: 58mm; weight: 66.25g. Obv.: Bismark's head to right, surrounded by clouds, leaning against his hand and looking down to earth; leg. "1898 / 20 JAHRE NACH MEINEM TODE WILL ICH AUFSTEHEN AUS MEINEM SARGE UM ZV SEHEN, OB DEUTSCHLAND IN EHREN VOR DER WELT BESTANDEN HAT ODER NICHT / -BISMARCK-". Rev.: defeated Germania at left, covering her eyes & socialist mounting horse; crown and sword lying on the ground; leg. "1918". In UNC; Kienast 216. Historama SIGNIFICANT JUDAICA Mailbid SaleMedals & Tokens Other Medals & Tokens |
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Lot 0161a - Medals & Tokens Other Medals & Tokens - Historama SIGNIFICANT JUDAICA Mailbid SaleEgypt: 15th Ophthalmologists Council in Egypt 1937, gilt and enamel uniface medallion by T. Bichay of Cairo; size: 50mm; weight: 56.2g. The obverse depicts Egyptian mythological symbols, including the 'Eye of Ra', with legend above in Arabic and below in Latin: "XV Concilium Ophthalmologicum Egypte 1937.". The medallion is maker-marked on 2 lines on reverse: T Bichay # Cairo. Historama SIGNIFICANT JUDAICA Mailbid SaleMedals & Tokens Other Medals & Tokens |
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Lot 0167a - Medals & Tokens Other Medals & Tokens - Historama SIGNIFICANT JUDAICA Mailbid SaleGermany: Kurt Eisner / "Clean Out Bavaria" satirical election medal by Karl Goetz (ND), circa. 1920; good quality bronze cast; size: 58mm, weight: 53.05g. Obv.: Bavarian Lion chasing after Jewish socialists Johannes Hoffman & Kurt Eisner bearing flags "EISNER ZEIT" ("Eisner's Time") & "RÄTE TERROR" ("Soviet Terror"); Gustav Landauer on extreme left; leg. "KEHRAUS IM BAYER" ("Clean Out Bavaria"); "LANDTAG" in exergue. Rev.: pillars w/Bavarian Church & Monarchy emblems, rising sun & flock of sheep; leg. "BAYERN TREUE" ("Bavarian Loyalty") and date "6. JUNI 1920". Kirschner Nr. 46, Kienast-268. Historama SIGNIFICANT JUDAICA Mailbid SaleMedals & Tokens Other Medals & Tokens |
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Lot 0162a - Medals & Tokens Other Medals & Tokens - Historama SIGNIFICANT JUDAICA Mailbid SaleGermany > Saxe-Gotha: lot x10 medals of Christian Wermuth & studio portaits of Roman & Byzantine emperors w/brief biographies (reverse), struck in tin/ white metal, c.1694-1715; all on thick planchets; sizes bet. 31-32mm; weights: 10.6 - 17.2g; some w/rim leg. or numbers etched, or ink inventory marks; most VF-EF, one BU. Includes: Antoninus Pius, Antoninus, Severus Alexander, Magnus, Hadrian, Titus, Volusian. Part of a 214 medal series created by Wermuth and continued later by his students (Forrer v6, pg. 437/444). Historama SIGNIFICANT JUDAICA Mailbid SaleMedals & Tokens Other Medals & Tokens |
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Lot 0168a - Medals & Tokens Other Medals & Tokens - Historama SIGNIFICANT JUDAICA Mailbid SaleIsrael: "Taba" National Stamp Exhibition in Haifa 1952 uniface gold gilt bronze medal; not maker-marked; size: 39.25mm; weight: 47.5g; thickness: 4.5mm. Obverse: emblem of the Taba exhibition, with Hebrew legend around "National Stamp Exhibition # Haifa 5712 1952". Reverse stamped with the name "Shmuel Lachman" - may be the same person who authored several important articles in the Israeli numismatic world on Ottoman coinage in the 1960's and '70s. This medal was probably issued to participants who exhibited stamp collections at the fair. In UNC-BU; some surface dirt (polish?). Historama SIGNIFICANT JUDAICA Mailbid SaleMedals & Tokens Other Medals & Tokens |
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Lot 0163a - Medals & Tokens Other Medals & Tokens - Historama SIGNIFICANT JUDAICA Mailbid SaleGermany: Gustav Landauer "Soviet/Conniving Republic" satire medal by Karl Goetz (ND), circa. 1919; bronze-copper cast; size: 57mm, weight: 45.9g. Obv.: three "shady" post-War characters - an unemployed type, a veteran, a huster-type; leg. "DIE RÄTE REPUBLIK" ("The Soviet Republic"), and "BAIERN 7.-30.IV.1919" in exergue. Rev.: Gustav Landauer dancing and kissing hatted Lenin; leg. "LOS VOM REICH!" and "ES LEBE DIE INTERNATIONAL" ("Long Live the 'International' [Socialist anthem]"). Some oxidation; Kirschner Nr. 45, Kienast-222. Historama SIGNIFICANT JUDAICA Mailbid SaleMedals & Tokens Other Medals & Tokens |
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Lot 0169a - Medals & Tokens Other Medals & Tokens - Historama SIGNIFICANT JUDAICA Mailbid SaleSpain: Ministry of Defence ("Ministerio de Defensa") medal; gold spray on silver(?); not maker-marked; size: 6.85cm; weight: 120.75g. Obverse depicts old-styled Spanish soldier with bugle, and legend below; on reverse the Spanish coat of arms. Estimated date: 1970s (pre/post Franco, 1975). In AU-UNC; some of the thin surface paint has worn off. Historama SIGNIFICANT JUDAICA Mailbid SaleMedals & Tokens Other Medals & Tokens |
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Lot 0164a - Medals & Tokens Other Medals & Tokens - Historama SIGNIFICANT JUDAICA Mailbid SaleGermany: Kurt Eisner / "Clean Out Bavaria" satirical election medal by Karl Goetz (ND), circa. 1920; brass(?) cast; size: 56mm, weight: 51.25g. Obv.: Bavarian Lion chasing after Jewish socialists Johannes Hoffman & Kurt Eisner bearing flags "EISNER ZEIT" ("Eisner's Time") & "RÄTE TERROR" ("Soviet Terror"); Gustav Landauer on extreme left; leg. "KEHRAUS IM BAYER" ("Clean Out Bavaria"); "LANDTAG" in exergue. Rev.: pillars w/Bavarian Church & Monarchy emblems, rising sun & flock of sheep; leg. "BAYERN TREUE" ("Bavarian Loyalty") and date "6. JUNI 1920". Kirschner Nr. 46, Kienast-268. Historama SIGNIFICANT JUDAICA Mailbid SaleMedals & Tokens Other Medals & Tokens |
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Lot 0165a - Medals & Tokens Other Medals & Tokens - Historama SIGNIFICANT JUDAICA Mailbid SaleGermany: Kurt Eisner "Verlassen" ("Leave") satirical medal by Karl Goetz (ND), circa. 1918-1919; brass(?) cast; size: 57mm, weight: 56.5g. Obv.: bourgeois, rotund Jewish-Socialist "Minister-President" of Bavarian Republic, Kurt Eisner & wife, walking past Bavarian coat of arms; leg. "VERLASSEN - 8.Nov.1918" ("Leave" & date of Eisner's ascention to power). Rev.: three "old-guard" knights shedding their uniforms & running away from Bolshevik mob bearing "Revolution" flag; leg. "DES BAYERN-KÖNIGS LIEB GARDE" ("The Bavarian King's Lifeguards") and "IN TREUE FEST" ("In True Loyalty"). Kirschner Nr. 44, Kienast-266. Historama SIGNIFICANT JUDAICA Mailbid SaleMedals & Tokens Other Medals & Tokens |