Medals & Tokens - Coin Auctions
 Lot 0190a - Medals & Tokens Religious, Biblical Medals & Tokens - Historama SIGNIFICANT JUDAICA Mailbid SaleGermany > Prussia: Jewish silver calendar medal, 1804/5565, by Daniel Friedrich Loos; size: 44mm; weight: 19.25g. Obv.: shining sun in center w/ dates "1804" & "5565"+ 3 rings around w/ text & dates; title at top "Calender". Rev.: calendar w/ moon phase symbols, Jewsh holidays & Prussia's royal family (Friedrich Wilhelm III) birthdates below. Jewish calendar medals in Prussia are almost unknown and may have been issued in appreciation for the King's predecessor, Friedrich Wilhelm II, who instituted a series of reforms granting the Jews greater rights. In VF-EF w/ luster; slightly uneven planchet. Historama SIGNIFICANT JUDAICA Mailbid SaleMedals & Tokens Religious, Biblical 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 |
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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 0185a - Medals & Tokens Religious, Biblical Medals & Tokens - Historama SIGNIFICANT JUDAICA Mailbid SaleCanada: numbered "Levi" Tribe silver ingot based on famous stained glass Jerusalem Windows by Marc Chagall, part of series of 12 silver plaques by Mosaic Art Co, of Canada, 1974; size: 42.5x57mm; weight: 64.65g. Contains 1000 grains of .999 fine silver (2.0833 troy ounces). On reverse, the field with the number has been scratched out. Plain rim, some toning. Historama SIGNIFICANT JUDAICA Mailbid SaleMedals & Tokens Religious, Biblical Medals & Tokens |
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 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 0180a - Medals & Tokens Prize Medals - Historama SIGNIFICANT JUDAICA Mailbid SaleUS: Sidney Licht MD 'American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine' medal, 1968; by Medallic Art Co., designed by Paul Manship, 1886-1966; Forrer listed v8 p. 22-24; size: 76mm; weight: 235.75g. Obv.: left-facing Licht, his name & title below.Rev.: artistic dedication to Licht around Staff of Asclepius. Licht (1907- 1979) was a Jewish physician credited with founding the International Rehabilitation Medicine Association, in 1968. Since 1979, the ACRM presents an annual "Elizabeth and Sidney Licht Award" to recognize excellence in scientific writing in rehabilitation medicine. Historama SIGNIFICANT JUDAICA Mailbid SaleMedals & Tokens Prize Medals |
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 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 0155a - Medals & Tokens Jewish Personalities & Medallists - Historama SIGNIFICANT JUDAICA Mailbid SaleRussia/Soviet Union: Stefan Zweig birth centennary bronze medal by Joseph Ivanovitch Kozlovsky, 1981; size: 60mm; weight: 122.25g. Zweig was a Jewish-Austrian novelist, playwright, journalist and biographer, becoming at his height one of the most popular writers in the world. The medallist Kozlowski (1913 - 1993) was a Soviet sculptor and artist, and may have been Jewish. 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 |
