1075073 | FRANCE. Israel. 1898 AE Medal. PCGS SP65. By Samuel Freidrich Beer. Paris. Edge: (cornucopia) BRONZE. 63.5mm. 111.33gm. Standing allegorical figure pointing to a new dawn and horizon for the Jewish people / Biblical quotation (in stylized Hebrew), a prophecy, from the Book of Ezekiel (Yekhezkel) ["Behold and I take the sons of Israel from among the nations and I have brought them to their land."].

Struck for the Second Zionist Congress in Basel, 1898.

Housed in an oversized holder. Includes original case.


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The Second World Zionist Congress (Hebrew: הקונגרס הציוני השני) met in Basel, Switzerland on 28 August 1898. The World Zionist Congress brought together delegates from across the world to raise funds, lobby support and create the institutions that would one day form the modern day Jewish State known as Israel, which was established in 1948.

This medal was designed by Samuel Friedrich Beer (1846-1912) who was a well known Jewish sculptor and medallist, and a personal friend of Theodor Herzl, the founder of Political Zionism, proposed in his 1896 pamphlet 'Der Judenstaat' that Jews would continue to face anti-Semitism in the diaspora until they were able to have self-determination in their own state. [Wikipedia].