‘Star-of-David of Love’ – numbered silver medal marking 30 years for the state of Israel, 1948-1978. Made of hallmarked silver 999. Designed by the artist Ya’akov Agam.
Obverse: wavy star-of-David.
Reverse: Menorah and the inscription ‘Chalom, Shalom’ (Dream, Peace). Signed ‘Agam.’
Circumference: Silver 999 and the medal no., 1119.
Weight: 100 grams. Diameter: 6 cm. Very fine condition
The collection includes:
Four medium-sized albums which contain 2000 postmarked Israeli stamps without edges.
Approximately 200 first day covers of Israeli stamps.
Approximately 150 JNF stamps, including about 70 from the period of the mandate and the establishment of the state.
Approximately 2000 foreign stamps, divided into three medium-sized albums and 150 envelopes which each contain stamps from an individual country = over 170 countries!! The stamps are from the late 19th century through the present. Some of the countries are: Iran, Fiji, Uzbekistan, USA, Estonia, Algeria, Italy, Uganda, UN, Austria, Ukraine, Antarctic Region, Australia, Indonesia, Indiana, Ireland, Albania, Angola, Antigua, Netherlands Antilles, Ecuador, Argentina, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Bavaria, Boronodi, Burkina Faso, Upper Volta, Belgium, Belarus, Bangladesh, Brazil, USSR, Gabon, Guatemala, Spanish Guinea, Jaifor=India, Jamaica, Germany – Nazi Germany, Dhubai, Dominican Republic, South Africa, Comoro Islands, the Netherlands, Hungary, Honduras, Vietnam, Venezuela, Vatican, Zaire [now Congo], Zimbabwe, Togo, Tajikistan, Tasmania, Trinidad, Greece, Libya, Luxembourg, Latvia, Liberia, Lithuania, Mauritania, Madagascar, Mozambique, Mali, Siam, San Marino, Serbia, Sarajevo, Ceylon, Chad, Czechoslovakia, Cambodia, Cameroon, Kenya, Cyprus, Rhodesia, Thailand, Yemen, Iraq, Jordan, Morocco, Sudan, Syria, Oman, Qatar, Afghanistan, Dubai, Ras al Khaimah, Pakistan, UAE, Bahrain, Lebanon, Egypt and many more…
And also many unsorted stamps, and a few USA envelopes.
The collection was not thoroughly examined, there may be rare and uncommon stamps.
Overall condition: Fine-very fine.
There are possibly a very small amount of doubles.
Chavatzelet , Mevasseret Tziyon , weekly periodical to inform a Jew everything he wants to know, by Yisrael Dov Frumkin, Jerusalem, 13 Nissan 1899. There are 2 Ottoman postage stamps stuck on the first page, as well as a postmark.
Fine-very fine condition. Faded postmark, only partially visible.
6.5 grams, 22 mm. French Franc. Obverse: Napoleon III. Reverse: Empire Francais. Fine condition.
6.5 grams, 22 m. 20 French Franc, Obverse: Napoleon III Reverse: Empire Francais. Fine condition.
6.5 grams, 22 cm. 20 French Franc. Obverse: Republic Francaise. Reverse: Liberte Eagalite Fraternitee with a rooster at center. Fine condition.
6.5 grams, 22 mm. 20 French Franc. Obverse: Republic Francaise. Obverse: Liiberte Eagalite Fraternitte, rooster at center. Fine condition.
6.5 grams, 22 mm. 20 French Franc. Obverse: Helvetia. Reverse: FR 20, cross at center. Fine condition.
Golani Brigade, Private Issue 1968. Gold 900. 35 mm. diameter, 20 grams. Very fine condition.
*Sigmund Freud. Vienna, 1906. Bronze, Fine condition.
* Silver Medallion honoring violinist Yehudi Menuhin, United States, 1965. Fine Silver, 55 mm., 95 grams, number 113. Fine condition.
*Silver/tombac medallion, Golani Brigade, 1968. Silver with tombac? 35 mm. 20 grams, very fine condition
Inclusive weight: 55.21 grams silver. 38 mm. Fine condition.
Silver medal, 325, for official presentation, not for sale. Israel, 1962. Diameter 59 mm. 115 grams. A globe, with a satellite sent by Israel to outer space and a Hebrew verse. The reverse features the country’s emblem and a space for the name of the person who received the medal. Signature of Prime Minister David ben Gurion on the bottom. Only 560 medals were issued. Fine condition. Numismatica 19, p. 224.
Lot of medallions. Includes 9 silver and 5 bronze medallions.
68 mm. 130 grams. Not hallmarked. On a wood stand. Fine condition.
* 100 mil silver, 1933.* 50 mil, silver, 1939. *2 mil, 1945. * 2 mil 1946. 1 mil, 1946. Used condition.
Inclusive weight 0.104 kgs. Various sizes, some Ottoman and some Mandatory, worth 1,2 and 5 mil. All the coins have holes so that they can be worn as pendants. Most are worn, moderate condition.
Inclusive weight 0.410 kgs. 7 Israeli medals from the Israel Coins and Medals Corp about independence and Chanuka, various sizes, 1974-1981. 3 different medallions from other countries, including the Munich Olymics of 1972. Fine condition.
44 mm. Inclusive weight 0.343 kgs. Obverse: text from an opera with the composer. Reverse: scene from the opera. From the series: La Scala Bicentennial Treasury of Opera’s Most Beautiful Moments, issued by the Franklin Mint in the United States. Light blemishes and stains in some medallions. Very fine condition.
44 mm. Inclusive weight 0.380 kgs. Obverse: text from an opera with the composer. Reverse: scene from the opera. From the series: La Scala Bicentennial Treasury of Opera’s Most Beautiful Moments, issued by the Franklin Mint in the United States. Light blemishes and stains in some medallions. Very fine condition.
* 25 mil – 1948 [the first coin of the State of Israel] *100 mil – 1939, 1940. *50 mil, 1935, 1942. *20 mil, 1942. *10 mil – 1927, 1939 * 5 mil 1927.
The first coin of the State of Israel, rotated 60 degrees. Fine condition.