My first medal "ISRAEL LIBERATA"
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My first medal purchase this medal was struck in my birth year 1961 for the foundation of the state of Israel in 1948.
The obverse is a woman holding her infant aloft below a palm tree as a man plants a sapling nearby. In Latin above
is ISRAEL LIBERATA (Israel freed) and in Hebrew at the bottom.
The reverse is a depiction of a bronze Roman sestertius struck in 71 AD after the fall of Jerusalem from the first century Jewish Revolt and
showing a triumphal Roman soldier near a palm tree watching over the weeping figure of Judea, IVDEA CAPTA around, SC in exergue, chain
and Hebrew legend around edge. The Roman soldier is representative of the Emperor Vespasian. Anyway, I thought it was pretty neat and
I fear I am now getting hooked on bronze medals.
The obverse is a woman holding her infant aloft below a palm tree as a man plants a sapling nearby. In Latin above
is ISRAEL LIBERATA (Israel freed) and in Hebrew at the bottom.
The reverse is a depiction of a bronze Roman sestertius struck in 71 AD after the fall of Jerusalem from the first century Jewish Revolt and
showing a triumphal Roman soldier near a palm tree watching over the weeping figure of Judea, IVDEA CAPTA around, SC in exergue, chain
and Hebrew legend around edge. The Roman soldier is representative of the Emperor Vespasian. Anyway, I thought it was pretty neat and
I fear I am now getting hooked on bronze medals.
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<< <i>How nice is that! GREAT COLOR! Is this one of the 100mm sized medals? Whew! I can't get over the color. Fantastic! Nice job on finding this. Thank you for sharing it with us. >>
This is 61mm in size and thanks!!
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