‘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.
*ANCIENT JEWISH COINS, REIFENBERG, 1947. *HISTORY OF JEWISH COINAGE, LONDON, 1864. *HISTORY OF JEWISH COINAGE, N.Y. 1967 *MUNZEN DES MITTELALTERS, 1976.
*Coins of Eretz Yisrael, M. Narkiss, two volumes. Jerusalem, 1936-1939 * Collection of Palestine Coins. Aryeh Kindler. Jerusalem, 1948 [two copies]. * Ancient Jewish Coins. Reifenberg, Jerusalem. 1948. *Jewish Coins, Baruch Kanol [booklet], 1963? *Jewish Coins of the Second Temple Period. Yaakov Meshorer. Tel Aviv, 1967..
Bronze medal issued on the occasion of the Second Zionist Congress in Basle, Switzerland. Paris, 1898. 61 mm. diameter. Fine condition.
Collection of coins, medals, banknotes, pins and more. Not checked.
Medal. Sigmund Freud. Vienna, 1906. Bronze. Fine condition.
Collection of Holocaust medals, silver and bronze. Very fine condition. Original packages.
Silver medal in honor of peace accords. Germany, 1651. 23 mm. diameter. 1.6 grams. Emblem with the number 24 and the text ‘Wilhelm Duke of Saxony’. The reverse notes the peace accords of 1651 that put an end to the Thirty Year War that broke out in 1618. Original nice patina. Slightly blemished rim. Fine condition.
Rishon L’Tzion medal, from the Palestine era. Rishon L’Tzion colony. 1882. 22 mm. diameter. Very fine condition.
Bronze or copper medal in honor of “Liberated Judea”. Palestine, c. 1920. 25 mm. diameter. Fine condition.
Silver medal in memory of the Great Synagogue in Munich that was destroyed by the Nazis in 1938. Israel, 1972. 45 mm. diameter. 48 grams. Very fine condition.
3 of the same medal (remade) issued in honor of Napoleon’s Sanhedrin of 1806. France, 1950. 41 mm. diameter. Excellent condition.
Medal in honor of Queen Elizabeth. England? 1586. 30 mm. diameter. Covered with an original brown patina. Fine-very fine condition
Silver medal, David and Jonathan. By a German artist, 16th century. 57 mm. diameter, 53 grams. One side features a nice relief of David and Jonathan in military garb, shaking hands and the text “WAS IC UND DU MITEINANDER GEREDT HABEN” – German translation of Samuel 20;32. The reverse features an impressive relief of a tree, with David shooting arrows and Jonathan sitting by. With German text, “Don’t forget your friend”. Signed by artist I.R. A few scratches and light rubbings. VF+.
Silver medal in honor of Queen Elizabeth. England? 1586. 30 mm. diameter. 8 grams. Queen Elizabeth I, 1586. The reverse features a sword and the Tetragrammaton . Latin text: satiates the hungry. Fine-very fine condition.
Bronze medal with the Freemasons emblem. France, 1843. Relief of the society’s ‘lodge’.With the emblem of the two-headed eagle holding a sword, additional motifs and the society’s mottos. Tetragrammaton in Hebrew letters. French text surrounded by a snake. The Freemasons is an international secret society that emphasizes unclear moral ideals. It promotes freedom, brotherhood and equality. Very fine condition.
Bronze medal in honor of French novelist Joseph Marie Eugène Sue. Belgium, 1848. 54 mm. diameter. Relief of bust of Eugene Sue with French text, ‘The Belgian Liberals”; the reverse features a quill and the text “Sa Plume Foudroie L’Hydre Qui Brava Rome Et Les Rois”. Along with the names of four of his works, including “The Wandering Jew”, Sue’s noted 10-volume work which depicts the Jew as a hero who protects the poor and weak from harm. Very fine condition.
Copper medal marking the 300th anniversary of the birth of theologian Theodore Beza. Geneva, Switzerland 1819. 57 mm. diameter. Obverse: Three religious figures and the date 1519 (Beza’s birth year), Tetragrammaton. Reverse: Commemorative words in Latin. Theodore Beza was a Protestant scholar who played an important role in the Reformation. Nice, original patina. Very fine condition.
Silver medal. Germany, 18th century? 25 mm. diameter. 9 grams. Decalogue on one side, three flowerpots on the other. Vowelized Tetragrammaton. Text in Gothic German. Ring at top. Very fine condition.
Bronze tablet in honor of the expansion of the Yeshuren Synagogue in Frankfurt, 1907. Artist, Karl Goetz. 6×5 cm. The tablet features an engaving of the synagogue within a decorated border.
Impressive medal. Rabbi Aharon Kotler with children of a talmud torah in learning in the background. Nice, unidentified metal. Excellent condition. English text on reverse. 38 mm.
Full portrait of the first Chief Rabbi of New York of the 19th century. Surrounded by a floral wreath. Short review in English on the reverse. Nice, unidentified metal. 38 mm.
Portrait of Rabbi Chaim Karigal. Jerusalem fundraiser in the 18th century to the Jewish, Sephardic communities in America. Very famous. Unidentified, nice metal. Excellent condition. 38 mm.
