Watch List notes:

Germany: Moses Mendelsohn Research Center for European-Jewish Studies at the University of Potsdam, 1993; in .999 silver by Helmut König; 40mm, 33.3g: a jointly produced medal limited to just 50 copies, by the University of Potsdam and the New Synagogue Berlin (Centrum Judaicum) to commemorate the establishment of the Moses Mendelsohn Research Center ("Moses-Mendelsohn-Zentrums" - MMZ) at the University of Potsdam. Depicts an artistic rendition, possibly of the King Frederick the Great's bestowment (1763) to Mendelssohn of the privilege of Protected Jew ("Schutzjude"), which assured his right to undisturbed residence in Berlin on the obverse and a right-facing bust of Mendelssohn on the reverse. The Center is a research institute which was founded on the 50th anniversary of the Wannsee Conference (at which the "Final Solution" to the Third Reich's treatment of European Jewry - extermination - was decided upon). Every year, since 1993, the Center awards its "Moses Mendelssohn Medal" to individuals who have promoted the tolerance and international understanding in the tradition of Mendelssohn, and its recipients (among them also Israelis) include Daniel Barenboim (2009), Arno Lustiger (1999) and Ignatz Bubis (1994). In Proof state, with some signs of exposure to air and toning along the rim.