Rimon Auctions
Auction 1 14 Mar 2018
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$1 donation token for Jewish Sanitarium for Incurables, 1926. The institution was founded in 1925 and became the the Jewish Chronic Disease Hospital (where the gene for Tay-Sachs disease was discovered); in 1968 it became Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center.
size: 33mm. weight: 10.1g.
Obverse: depicts image of the structure with legend "The Great Drive For the Incurables Home - Jewish Sanitarium for Incurables 1926".
reverse: image of an incurable and legend "Contribution | One Dollar | Luck for a Buck".