Medals & Tokens - Coin Auctions
 Lot 0197a - Medals & Tokens Religious, Biblical Medals & Tokens - Historama SIGNIFICANT JUDAICA Mailbid SaleIsrael: "Bar Mitzvah I" numbered (0682 out of 8375) silver State Medal, 1971; by Rothschild and Lippman ("Roli"), minted by Kretchmer; size: 45mm; weight: 47g. In UNC. Historama SIGNIFICANT JUDAICA Mailbid SaleMedals & Tokens Religious, Biblical Medals & Tokens |
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 Lot 0156a - Medals & Tokens Jewish Personalities & Medallists - Historama SIGNIFICANT JUDAICA Mailbid SaleUnited States: Judah Magnes/ Magnes Museum 20th anniversary(?) bronze bas relief medal by Marika Somogyi, c. 1982; size: 110 x 117mm; weight: 1151g. Obverse: right-facing Magnes with dates of birth and death. Reverse: Magnes Museum and dates 1962-1982. Judah Leib Magnes (1877-1948) was a prominent Reform Rabbi, Jewish activist and co-founder of the Hebrew University, who advocated the establishment of a bi-national Jewish-Arab state. The Judah L. Magnes Museum (Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life) was founded in 1961 by Seymour & Rebecca Fromer and is the third largest collection of its kind in the US. Historama SIGNIFICANT JUDAICA Mailbid SaleMedals & Tokens Jewish Personalities & Medallists |
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 Lot 0176a - Medals & Tokens Prize Medals - Historama SIGNIFICANT JUDAICA Mailbid SalePalestine: bronze participation medallion for the "United Services Athletic Meeting 1942" in Tel Aviv; size: 32.5mm; weight: 13.25g. Obv. & rev. maker-marked "SK" - Shmuel Kretschmer (the leading maker of pins and metal emblems in Palestine and early Israel); marked in Hebrew "Yerushalem" / English "Palestine" on back. The athletic meeting was an all-British event on 2 May 1942 (a Saturday) at the Macabbiah Stadium in Tel Aviv. It included various athletic competitions, and prizes were awarded by the wife of General Douglas McConnel, the commander ("General Officer Commanding") of British troops in Palestine. Historama SIGNIFICANT JUDAICA Mailbid SaleMedals & Tokens Prize Medals |
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 Lot 0192a - Medals & Tokens Religious, Biblical Medals & Tokens - Historama SIGNIFICANT JUDAICA Mailbid SaleGermany(?): 'Moses' Joachimsthal of the 'Praguemedaille' series (tallion), after Hieronymus Magdeburger & school (ND), circa. 1535 or later cast; white metal; size: 36mm; weight: 12.45. Obv: Moses facing left w/long, pointed beard & upraised horns; legend "DER• HER• IST• MEIN• STERCK• VN• LOBSANG• VN• IST• MEI• HEIL*" and "MO ISE" on either side, "•EX•15•" below & Hebrew word "Moses" on collar. Rev: square w/4 lined Hebrew legend "Shall Have no Other G-D Before Me"(?) and "•EXODVS•Zo•" below; "DV•SOLT KE" / "IN•ANDER•" / "GOTTER•N" / "EBEN•MIR H" around square. Rare design; ref Katz 146. In EF-AU. Historama SIGNIFICANT JUDAICA Mailbid SaleMedals & Tokens Religious, Biblical 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 0171a - Medals & Tokens Prize Medals - Historama SIGNIFICANT JUDAICA Mailbid SaleBritain: 1st Place Scholar bronze medal awarded by the Jewish Free School to Emanuel Tacker, 1905; not maker-marked; size: 55.25mm; weight: 88.15g. The Jewish Free School (JFS) was founded in 1732 as the Talmud Torah of the Great Synagogue of London, serving orphans of the community; in the early 1800s it absorbed thousands of immigrant children and numbered at one point 4000 students, making it the largest school in the world. Today the JFS is Europe's largest and most successful Jewish secondary school. Historama SIGNIFICANT JUDAICA Mailbid SaleMedals & Tokens Prize Medals |
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 Lot 0187a - Medals & Tokens Religious, Biblical Medals & Tokens - Historama SIGNIFICANT JUDAICA Mailbid SaleGermany > Dresden: Theodor & Sophie Erbstein golden wedding anniversary cast token, 1880; uneven planchet, silvered bronze(?); not maker-marked; size: 20.75mm; weight: 2.45g. Obv.: 8 line leg. "The Happy Couple Theodor and Sophie Erbstein on [their] Golden Wedding Anniversary". Rev.: couples' 1st initial T + S within wreath; Star of David above emitting rays. Julius Theodor Erbstein (1803- 1882), was a lawyer, chief State archivist & numismatist, son Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Erbstein; he & J. H. Sophie (b. Muller) both born 1803; sons Julius & Albert Erbstein both well-known numismatists & Dresden museum directors. Historama SIGNIFICANT JUDAICA Mailbid SaleMedals & Tokens Religious, Biblical Medals & Tokens |
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 Lot 0151a - Medals & Tokens Jewish Personalities & Medallists - Historama SIGNIFICANT JUDAICA Mailbid SaleRussia/Soviet Union: [Reinhold Moritzevich/Ernest] Glière (Glier) birth centennary bronze medal by Joseph Ivanovitch Kozlovsky, 1975; size: 60mm; weight: 123.65g. Glier was a Russian-Jewish composer and conductor. The medallist Kozlowski (1913 - 1993) was a Soviet sculptor and artist, and may have been Jewish. An oxidation speck under Glier's left eye. Historama SIGNIFICANT JUDAICA Mailbid SaleMedals & Tokens Jewish Personalities & Medallists |
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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 0182a - Medals & Tokens Religious, Biblical Medals & Tokens - Historama SIGNIFICANT JUDAICA Mailbid SaleDavid and Batsheva ('Bathsheba' or 'Betsabe') cuckold Joachimstahler (ND), circa. 1540-1550; struck in brass; by Concz Welcz; size: 37.5mm; weight: 11.1g. Obv.: bust of King David in robes w/ crown & duck on top; double-ringed legend: "DAVID. EIN. GESALBTER. GOTTES. VND. KONIG. IN. ISRA. / I. SAMVEL. XVI. CAPIT." ['David G-d's Annointed King in Israel']. Rev.: Batsheva bathing in a courtyard pool, David leaning over balcony to see her; legend around: "DAVID. BRICHT. DIE. EH. MIT. BERSABEA. 3. REG. II.". Duck device may be symbol for 'cuckolding'. In G-F; chip of bottom missing; Katz #254; see Kirsch-9 & Fiew-74. Historama SIGNIFICANT JUDAICA Mailbid SaleMedals & Tokens Religious, Biblical Medals & Tokens |
