Lot 409
Collection of Arab Medals – Medals with Views of the City of Acre, Military Medals that were Awarded to Fighters in the Wars against Israel, and More
14 Arab medals, most of them military medals.
Among them: * Two medals awarded to fighters who protected Acre against the British Army in 1840. The medals depict the Citadel of Acre, the castle of Abdulmejid I, and bear Arabic legends. * A medal depicting the El-Jazzar Mosque in Acre. * A medal awarded, presumably, to Egyptian soldiers who fought in the War of Independence (with a relief depicting three soldiers and Palestinian refugees). * Medal marking the battles in Israel in 1948, with a map of Israel and above it a pair of swords, a church and a crescent. * Jordanian medal awarded to fighters in the Yom Kippur War. * And more.
Size and condition vary.
Provenance: The Morton Leventhal Collection, New-York.
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