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lot # 11 - Medals, Tokens.

Wednesday Dec 19, 2018 17:00 Asia/Jerusalem

Donation token - Sanitarium - USA - 1926

 $1 donation token for Jewish Sanitarium for Incurables, 1926. The institution was founded in 1925 and became the the Jewish Chronic Disease Hospital (where the gene for Tay-Sachs disease was discovered); in 1968 it became Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center.


Obverse: depicts image of the structure with legend "The Great Drive For the
Incurables Home - Jewish Sanitarium for Incurables 1926".

Reverse: image of an incurable and legend "Contribution | One Dollar | Luck for a Buck".

Condition: UNC
Weight: 10.1 gram.
Diameter: 33 mm.

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