Auction 70 · Lot 82
BRONZE MOSES MONTEFIORE MEDAL.
- Estimate
- $1,000–$1,500
- Hammer price
- Not recorded
Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.
Publication
1864
Description
Commemorative Medal. Signed by Jewish medalist Charles Wiener (1832-88).
Obverse: Profiles of Jewish financier and philanthropist Sir Moses Montefiore (1784-1885) and his wife, Lady Judith (née Cohen, 1784-1862).
Reverse: Hebrew verse including “And Moses will be exalted and will go out to his brothers and he will be a bearer of their burdens.” The whole surrounded by a wreath of shamrock, rose, thistle, palm, oak and laurel intertwined with ribbons bearing names of places in which Montefiore undertook influential work on behalf of distressed Jews: Jerusalem, Damascus, Russia, Morocco and Romania.
Diam: 68mm.
summary
See D. M. Friedenberg, Jewish Minters & Medalists (1976) pp. 51-3.