Medal - Dona Gracia

Features

Location Israel
Type Commemorative medals › Personality or portrait medal
Year 2010
Composition Silver (.999)
Weight 31.1 g
Diameter 39 mm
Shape Round
Technique Milled
Number
N#
176529
References ICMC# 21911390
Israel Coins and Medals Corporation (https://israelmint.com)

Commemorative issue

500th anniversary

Obverse

Image of Dona Gracia looking towards Tiberias, symbolizing her determination to create a better future for the Jewish people. The Ferrara Bible, Wall of Tiberias (called the Dona Gracia Wall because it was rebuilt under her orders and inaugurated in 1568). Beside it, palmtrees characteristic of the Tiberias region, the seal of the Sultan, Suleiman the Magnificent, from whom Dona Gracia purchased authority over Tiberias and its surroundings, a ship typical of those in the fleet she owned, which sailed as far as America and India. On the ship's sails, the letters P, for Portugal, the city of her birth, and A for Antwerp, where she went, when the Inquisition began in Portugal.

Lettering:
Dona Gracia
Ferrara

Reverse

The artistic door at the entrance to the "House of Dona Gracia" Museum-Hotel in Tiberias, reminiscent of the door of Dona Gracia's palace in Istanbul from where it was brought, a verse denoting the goal of the Dona Gracia Association to foster the leadership of women in the House.

Edge

The years of Dona Gracia (1510-1569), Israel State Emblem, metal and serial number.

Comments

Engraving: USA.

Mint:
 Silver and Bronze medals: USA.
 Gold medal: ICMC Mint.

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Date Mintage VG F VF XF AU UNC
ND (2010)  500

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