Israel Token "Görlitzer Schekel"

Israel Token "Görlitzer Schekel" - obverseIsrael Token "Görlitzer Schekel" - reverse

© Philip Coetzee

Features

Location Israel
Type Miscellaneous tokens › Religious token
Weight 13.0 g
Diameter 31.5 mm
Thickness 3.5 mm
Shape Round
Technique Cast
Orientation Medal alignment ↑↑
Number
N#
331211

Obverse

Lettering: ירושלם קדושה

Translation: Shekel of Israel

Reverse

Lettering: שקל ישראל

Translation: Holy Jerusalem

Edge

Smooth

Comments

The token is a representation of a Hebrew ancient coin, with an illustration on that page from the 1679 book Turris Babel by Athanasius Kircher.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Athanasius_Kircher_-_Turris_Babel_-_1679_%28page_215_crop_-_Hebrew_Coin_VII%29.png

The characters on the coin, supposed to be an ancient version of Hebrew script, are transcribed by Kircher in modern Hebrew as follows:
ירושלם קדושה
שקל ישראל
translated in Latin as Israël Siclus Sancta Jerusalem, "Shekel of Israel, Holy Jerusalem".

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