Lot 298
Two Pendants and a Medallion – Establishment of the State of Israel
Two pendants and a medallion. [Eretz Israel, 1948].
1-2. Two pendants. Silver (marked).
Obverse: Map of Eretz Israel prior to the conquest of the southern Negev, Jeep, boat and airplane. Reverse: "Ki Mal'achav Yetzave Lecha Leshomrecha Bechol Derachecha" (Hebrew) and underneath - "Yerushalem". Diameter: 17 mm, 23 mm. Hangers.
3. Medallion in the style of "Judea Capta" coins (coins struck by the Romans to celebrate the capture of Judea). Obverse: The image which appears on "Judea Capta" coins – a Roman soldier and a leaning woman (symbolizing the captured nation). Between them – a palm tree (symbol of Judea). Around this image appears the inscription "Judea Captive 70 C.E" and an inscription in Hebrew. Reverse: The same palm tree and next to it two figures – a woman holding a baby and a man planting, surrounded by an inscription "Liberated Israel 1948" (in Hebrew and in English).
Diameter: 19 mm.
