By: Historama
lot # 50070LA - Numismatics > Community & Charity tokens
Palestine/Russia?: bronze Rishon LeZion Jewish settlement token, c. late 19th C. (1889/92?); size: 28.5 x 34mm; weight: 7.7g. Obv.: orchard & fields of RLZ; Heb. date of est. "5642" (1882) in exergue & legend around (Yeshayahu, ch. 41); rev. twin windows: depicting prayers at Western Wall & seed sower & leg. (Psalms, 14). Possibly issued when local Great Synagogue inaugurated (1889) or when RLZ was 10 years old (1892). Well worn.
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