The E-Sylum:  Volume 7, Number 20, May 16, 2004, Article 15

COINS ON COINS AND MEDALS

Bill Rosenblum writes: "As usual another great issue of The
E-Sylum. I had intended to write last week concerning two
questions that were brought up by readers. Unfortunately,
I had returned from the CHicago International Coin Fair on
Monday night, dead tired and didn't get caught up in my
correspondence until late in the week.

I was going to mention the coins depicted on the tiny coins
of Samaria which depict five Athenian owls as Dave
Menchell wrote this week. It may very well be the first coins
depicted on coins, but it is no doubt the first coin to depict
the Jewish ceremony of Pidyon Haben. I offered an obol
in my fall 2003 mailbid sale. See Ronn Berroll?s article in
the December 2002 edition of The Celator for more
information about the ceremony and ancient coins. The short
lived modern series of Pidyon Haben coins issued by Israel
(1970-77) contained at least three coins which depicted five
coins on it's obverse. And yes, many people collect coins with
coins on them. I had a collector stop by my bourse table in
Chicago asking for the same thing.

A medal with the same thing is the Israel series of Judaea
Capta/Israel Liberata issued periodically since 1958. The
obverse depicts a copy of the famous (or infamous) Roman
Judaea Capta Sestertius with the Roman emperor on one
side of a palm tree and a weeping representation of Judaea
on the other side. Sometimes this is done with an actual
coin motif, other times it takes over virtually the entire side
of the medal. The reverse shows the Israel Liberated side
with a farmer sowing a field on one side of the palm tree
while his wife holds their baby up to the sky.

I was also going to mention the medal Steve Pelligrini noted.
That medal is listed in Dan Friedenberg's Jewish Medals
from the Renaissance to the Fall of Napoleon as well as
BHM. In addition there is at least one other medal referring
to the OP (Old Prices) riots which Jim Elmen is offering in
his mailbid sale this week."

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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