Rimon Auction 03 - Coins and Banknotes of Israel and Palestine, medals and tokens.

probably made in Russia, here we preset 2 types, the small one (22.5 m"m) and the large one (28.5 m"m). made from copper.

Obverse: orchard & fields of RLZ; Heb. date of "5642" (1882) in exergue; leg. upper edge (Yeshayahu, ch. 41): "The first to Zion here they are, and to Jerusalem a portent I shall give"; on bottom edge, "Colonia Rishon LeZion".

 

Reverse: image twin windows: depicting prayers at Western Wall & seed sower; w/Star of David above + leg. "Who will deliver from Zion the salvation of Israel" (Psalms, 14) & "If I Forget Thee O Jerusalem, May My Right Hand Forget its Cunning".