WHM 97

Inventory number: WHM 97
Category: Medal
Date: 1958AD
Material: Silver
Shape: Circular
Diameter: 62mm
Weight: 119.90g
Axis: 12h
Acquisition: Wadih Hadad Collection (Beirut), bought from CNG, 418, lot 594 (Ex Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 343, 28 January 2015, lot 700).
Date of acquisition: 2018-04-11
Remarks: Israel. On the edge: Edge: STATE OF ISRAEL (Menorah) (State of Israel in Hebrew) 0239 STERLING 935 (Silver in Hebrew). Medal by Rothschild and Lippmann celebrating the first decade of the state of Israel. The Obverse depicts a woman jubilating. The reverse, showing a woman mourning, is inspired from a Roman type celebrating the capture of Judaea after the fall of Jerusalem in 70 AD.

ISRAEL LIBERATA . (above, Israel liberation), Hebrew legend (below, Decade for the freedom of Israel 5718)

Palm tree; to left, jubilant woman standing left, holding infant aloft; to right, farmer planting sapling.

IVDAEA CAPTA (Judaea captured), SC (in exergue, by order of the Senate), Hebrew legend (below, Judaea in exile 3830)

Palm tree; to left, Roman soldier standing right, leaning on spear, left foot on helmet; to r. mourning woman seated right; chains around.