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Auction 6  9 Oct 2018
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Lot 244
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Netherlands: San Remo Conference commemorative medal, 1920; brass; by Christiaan Johannes van der Hoef; size: 29.5mm x 35mm; weight: 10.85g. A small tallion version of the original large plate medal: obverse depicts an allegorical Cananite greeting his modern Hebrew counterpart; on reverse a Star of David with "Zion" in center, surrounded by shields of the 12 Tribes of Israel, Hebrew quotation "If I Forget Thee O Jerusalem" and the a Hebrew date from the period of the conference (here, as on the larger medal, with the error in the order of the digits in the Hebrew date for the year). The literature available about this medal indicates these smaller-sized versions (in bronze) were awarded to purchasers of the World Zionist Organization's fundraising "Shekel" vouchers; but such medals bear a different reverse design, and this one is not documented in brass, so it may actually be a period commemorative piece from the time when the original medal was created; Polak-66 and JTM-EP13.
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