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Lot #105
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Lot #105
$45
Independence Day Coin, 1989 5759, 41st Anniversary "… and I shall give thee a pleasant land, the finest heritage…" (Jeremiah 3:19). It has been said…
$45
Read moreLot #106
$40
Independence Day Coin, 1993-5753 Israel has a priceless "natural resource" – tourism. Tourism is the country’s largest export. Income from tourism is higher than that…
$40
Read moreLot #107
$45
Independence Day Coin 1997/5757 49th Anniversary Initiated by Theodor Herzl, the first Zionist Congress was held on August 29, 1897 in Basel, Switzerland. This event…
$45
Read moreLot #108
$50
11th in the Biblical Art Coin Series Abraham was sitting by his tent in the desert heat and Sarah his wife, in her admirable modest…
$50
Read moreLot #109
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11th in the Biblical Art Coin Series Abraham was sitting by his tent in the desert heat and Sarah his wife, in her admirable modest…
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Read moreLot #111
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After the establishment of the state in 1948, and until 1952, the mill (and the pound of Eretz Israel) served as legal tender. The only…
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Read moreLot #112
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After the establishment of the state in 1948, and until 1952, the mill (and the pound of Eretz Israel) served as legal tender. The only…
$30
Read moreLot #113
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After the establishment of the state in 1948, and until 1952, the mill (and the pound of Eretz Israel) served as legal tender. The only…
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Read moreLot #114
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After the establishment of the state in 1948, and until 1952, the mill (and the pound of Eretz Israel) served as legal tender. The only…
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Read moreLot #115
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Israel - 2 Shekalim 2009 - NGC PF 69 - Samson and The Lion, 2009/5769
14th in the Biblical Art Coin Series
Legal Tender issued by the Bank of Israel
Samson was a Nazarite, an ascetic, who abstained from worldly pleasures, including drinking alcohol and even cutting his hair. When Samson was on his way to meet the Philistine girl he wanted to wed, he encountered an attacking lion. The Lord gave him super human strength to fight and destroy it. Later, when on his way to his wedding, he observed bees producing honey in the carcass of the lion – an unexpected lesson in the vagaries of life and in the possibility of making something sweet from something quite the opposite.
Obverse: Face value in Hebrew and English, Israel State Emblem, "Israel" in English, Hebrew and Arabic, mint year, a decorative element representing a palm tree.
Reverse: An artistic rendering of Samson wrestling with the fierce lion in the Philistine city of Timnat, in ancient Mesopotamian art style typical of the Canaanite period, . The same stylized palm tree as on the obverse, symbolizing the Land of Israel, where the scene took place.