Historical and Art Medals, British and World Coins and Tokens

Germany, 1924. (Judaica), Baron Maurice de Hirsch (1831-1896), Jewish Colonisation Association, Æ commemorative medal 75mm signed Ashuach, 1924. Rare, very fine (£90-120)

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Historical and Art Medals.

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Bavarian jewish financier and philanthropist established himself in Paris in 1870, after the Franco-German war. In 1891, de Hirsch founded an agricultural colony in Argentina for the expelled Russian Jewish citizen.