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Auction 39  21-25 Jan 2021
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Lot 3391

Starting price: 65 USD
Price realized: 95 USD
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ISRAEL: AR medal (119.72g), ND [1958], 61mm, "A Decade of Israel 's Liberation Silver Medal; symbol of Israel 's liberation"; a farmer planting a tree, a gleeful woman holding her child aloft, a seven branched palm tree bearing two clusters of fruit; around the rim, the Hebrew inscription "A decade of Israel 's Liberation 5718 (1948)" and in Latin "Israel Liberation" // depiction of a Roman coin struck on the occasion of the conquest of Jerusalem by Vespasian in the year 70 C.E.; on the left, Vespasian the victor; on the right a mourning Hebrew woman sitting under a palm tree, the symbol of Judea; the edge of the Roman coin bears the Latin inscription "Judea Capta", Judea captured, below, the letters S.C. standing for "Senatus Consultum", by order of the Senate; around the rim of the medallion, a chain, the symbol of captivity, and a Hebrew inscription "Judea in Exile 3830 (70 C.E.), struck in .935 fine silver, with original case of issue of the Israel Coins and Medals Corporation Ltd., Unc.

Estimate: 75-100 USD
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