Lot 458
Medal - Rishon Le'Zion, 1882
Medal. Rishon Le'Zion, 5642 (1882).
Obverse: in the center is a view of the colony of Rishon Le'Zion and the year: "5642" (1882), surrounded by the verse "I first have declared it to Zion, and I give to Jerusalem a herald of good tidings" (Isaiah 41: 27), after which Rishon Le'Zion is named, and "Rishon Le'Zion Colony" (Hebrew). Reverse: in the center, inside a frame in the shape of the Ten Commandments, are figures praying at the Western Wall and the figure of a farmer sowing a field. Above the figures are a Star of David and the legend "O that deliverance for Israel would come out of Zion", surrounded by the verse "If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, may my right hand forget its skill".
Diameter: 25 mm.