Silver Medal - Imaginary "Shekel"/ Medal with a Relief
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1. Silver medal styled as an ancient "Shekel" coin from the period of the Great Revolt. [19th century].
Obverse: manna jar between the Hebrew letters kaf and shin, near a shofar and a mitre (head-dress) and the Hebrew legend "God watches over Israel with a strong king in Jerusalem". Reverse: flowering branch, (representing the Aaron's rod), surrounded by a mitre, shofar and the Hebrew letters reish and shin, with the Hebrew legend "Shekel of David left hidden in the treasury of Zion in the Holy Temple". Diameter: 48 mm. Reverse rotated about 50 degrees.
See: Catalogue of the Permanent and Loan Collections of the Jewish Museum, London, edited by R. D. Barnett. London, 1974. Item 1142, plate CXCVI.
2. Medal with relief of the spies, 1914.
Obverse: the spies carrying a cluster of grapes, with the Hebrew legend "Canaan" (misspelled). Signed with the monogram "AZ 14" [evidently the sculptor Arnold Zadikow]. Reverse: the Hebrew letters alef and tzadi around a Star of David, with the legend "There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty". (Proverbs 11:24). Diameter: 48 mm.
See: Great Jewish Portraits in Metal, edited by Daniel M. Friedenberg. New York, 1963. p. 139.
Provenance: collection of Bruno Kirschner
Opening Price: $300
Obverse: manna jar between the Hebrew letters kaf and shin, near a shofar and a mitre (head-dress) and the Hebrew legend "God watches over Israel with a strong king in Jerusalem". Reverse: flowering branch, (representing the Aaron's rod), surrounded by a mitre, shofar and the Hebrew letters reish and shin, with the Hebrew legend "Shekel of David left hidden in the treasury of Zion in the Holy Temple". Diameter: 48 mm. Reverse rotated about 50 degrees.
See: Catalogue of the Permanent and Loan Collections of the Jewish Museum, London, edited by R. D. Barnett. London, 1974. Item 1142, plate CXCVI.
2. Medal with relief of the spies, 1914.
Obverse: the spies carrying a cluster of grapes, with the Hebrew legend "Canaan" (misspelled). Signed with the monogram "AZ 14" [evidently the sculptor Arnold Zadikow]. Reverse: the Hebrew letters alef and tzadi around a Star of David, with the legend "There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty". (Proverbs 11:24). Diameter: 48 mm.
See: Great Jewish Portraits in Metal, edited by Daniel M. Friedenberg. New York, 1963. p. 139.
Provenance: collection of Bruno Kirschner
Opening Price: $300
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Silver Medal - Imaginary "Shekel"/ Medal with a Relief
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