Medals & Tokens - Coin Auctions
Lot 0196a - Medals & Tokens Religious, Biblical Medals & Tokens - Historama SIGNIFICANT JUDAICA Mailbid SaleGermany: Religious festivals 'occasion' medal ("Gelegenheitsmedaillen" - token medals given on special occastions) of Jesus and the Pharisees (ND), circa. 1800; struck in silver; by G. [Gottfried Bernhard] Loos die-sinking establishment of Berlin - possibly the work of the artist Döll; 36.25mm, 14.05g: obverse depicts Jesus flanked on either side by 3 Pharisees; reverse, 5-line legend in German, "FÜRCHTE GOTT THUE RECHT SCHEUE NIEMAND" ("fear no man, rather fear God"). In UNC, with excellent patina and luster. 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 0175a - Medals & Tokens Prize Medals - Historama SIGNIFICANT JUDAICA Mailbid SaleNetherlands: Court Commission of the Dutch Jews / Medal for the Improvement of the Social Condition of the Jews, 1827, by Johann Peter Schouberg; bronze strike; size: 58.5mm; weight: 83.4g. Obv.: 'anchor of hope & Tablets of Moses' below rays of sun; leg. "According to his Majesty's decision of 17 October 1827. Number 184". Rev.: circular leg. "Awarded by the Main Committee to the Affairs of the Israelites". This was a prize medal awarded by the High Commission of Jewish Affairs for discourse presented in Dutch. Ref: "De Curaçaosche Courant", 13/12/1828; Polak-21; Forrer v4 p.361 & v5 p.400-401; Jewish Encyclopedia. Historama SIGNIFICANT JUDAICA Mailbid SaleMedals & Tokens Prize Medals |
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Lot 0191a - Medals & Tokens Religious, Biblical Medals & Tokens - Historama SIGNIFICANT JUDAICA Mailbid SaleGermany(?): large blackened cast copper(?) medal of Jesus in style of Pilgrim's medals; not maker-marked; size: 100.7mm; weight: 604g. Obv.: left facing Christ with Hebrew words "G-d" & "Yoshua" [Jesus] on either side. Rev.: 5-lined legend in Hebrew: משיח מלך # הלך בשלום # וי--- ב עלמה # לאיש שחל נעשה # אנוש שועה ("Messiah King # Went in Peace # And G-d in this World [misspelled] # To a Man Who Became # Human 'Shua' ['Yoshua' in Hebrew missing the letter 'Yud']). 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 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 0170a - Medals & Tokens Prize Medals - Historama SIGNIFICANT JUDAICA Mailbid SaleBelgium: Academie de Malines [Mechelen] 1st prize silver medal to H. Van Den Bergh, 1859-60; Rev. by Joseph-Pierre Braemt; size: 37.75mm; weight: 23.7g. Obv. laurels; engraved Fr. leg. "Academie of Malines Superior Level Architect 1st Prize, Competition 1859-60". Rev.: left facing King; leg. "Leopold Premier # Roi Des Belges". Medallion made from 2 planchets (rim seam). Receipient may be Henriëtte Issabelle Joanna van den Bergh (1838-1920; Jewish?) of Antwerp: daughter of Jan (Jean-Felix), gin-distiller & married to Emil Mayer, of Cologne; son Fritz Mayer (1858- 1901) was art collector & she est. "Museum Mayer van den Bergh" for him. Historama SIGNIFICANT JUDAICA Mailbid SaleMedals & Tokens Prize Medals |
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Lot 0186a - Medals & Tokens Religious, Biblical Medals & Tokens - Historama SIGNIFICANT JUDAICA Mailbid SaleChristian Kabbalist amulet, post 1518; bronze; size: 39mm; weight: 16.1g. Obverse bears pentagon with various names of Jesus ("Yeshu"); reverse bears square with four Angels' names around and 12 permutations of G-d's name (Tetragrammaton) within. Reference: Schrire’s Hebrew Magic Amulets #42. Historama SIGNIFICANT JUDAICA Mailbid SaleMedals & Tokens Religious, Biblical 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 0181a - Medals & Tokens Prize Medals - Historama SIGNIFICANT JUDAICA Mailbid SaleUS: Stephen Rothman Memorial Award bronze prize medal; by Medallic Art Co., designed by Bruce Moore (1906- 1980); size: 63.5mm; weight: 119.75g. Obv.: left-facing Rothman w/ name above, "MD" on left & years of birth/ death on right; 3-line homage below. Rev.: owl & snake w/ 2-ringed legend. The Society for Investigative Dermatology instituted the annual SR Award & SR Medal in 1967 "for distinguished service to investigative cutaneous medicine". Rothman (1894- 1963) was a Jewish Hungarian dermatologist who transformed investigative dermatology into a scientific discipline. Moore's medals are highly valued in the market. Historama SIGNIFICANT JUDAICA Mailbid SaleMedals & Tokens Prize Medals |