Historama Autumn Mail Auction #5

Germany: Jewish circumcision ("Brit Mila") silver medal, 1837-38, by Aaron Kohn; size: 41mm; weight: 23.4g. Obverse: 7 lines of Hebrew prayer during the circumcision: "Our Lord and Lord of our forefathers sustain this child [name] for his father and mother" and "Happy will be the father by the progeny of his loins and rejoiced will be the mother by the fruit of her belly. As is written"; Kohn's name in exergue. Reverse: 4-lines in Hebrew surrounded by legend all excerpted from the ceremony prayers, center: "Happy will be your father and your mother and rejoyceful your birth", edge: "Just as you entered into a convenant so shall you partake of the Torah and the Khupa and of good deeds"; Hebrew date "5698" [1837-38] in exergue. Kohn was a prominent German Jewish medalist, uniquely working exclusively on Jewish themes, using Hebrew. In EF-AU; a couple of rim crimps from the manufacture, some signs of cleaning/ polishing; rotated alignment (90 degrees); JMM-61.