State Medal - Chaim Herzog

Features

Location	Israel
Issuing entity	Pièces et médailles du gouvernement israélien Corp.
Period	State of Israel (1948-date)
Type	Commemorative medals › Personality medals
Year	1998
Composition	Srebro (.935)
Weight	26 g
Diameter	37 mm
Shape	Okrągły
Technique	Frezowana
Orientation	Medal alignment ↑↑
Number	N# 353290
References	ICMC# 25291375 Israel Coins and Medals Corporation (https://israelmint.com)

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Commemorative issue

Chaim Herzog Automatically translated

Series: Presidents of Israel

Obverse

Wizerunek Chaima Herzoga i godło państwowe po prawej stronie; napis "CHAIM HERZOG" w języku hebrajskim i angielskim wzdłuż górnej krawędzi oraz słowa "ISRAEL'S SIXTH PRESIDENT 1983-1993" w języku hebrajskim i angielskim wzdłuż dolnej krawędzi. Automatically translated

Scripts: hebrajski, łaciński

Lettering:
CHAIM HERZOG חיים הרצוג
ISRAEL’S SIXTH PRESIDENT (1983-1993/תשמ"ג-תשנ"ג)
הנשיא השישי

Engraver: Tidhar Dagan (תדהר דגן)

Designer: Ruben Nutels

Reverse

Zwój Deklaracji Niepodległości i flaga prezydencka; napis "Izrael" 50" i słowa "50. rocznica Izraela" w języku hebrajskim wzdłuż dolnej granicy. Automatically translated

Scripts: hebrajski, łaciński

Lettering:
ISRAEL 50
יובל למדינת ישראל

Engraver: Tidhar Dagan (תדהר דגן)

Designer: Ruben Nutels

Edge

(en) State emblem with the words "STATE OF ISRAEL" inscribed in Hebrew and English; the metal and serial number; the steel/copper bimetallic medal (like the 10 shekel coin), is 23mm in diameter and was minted on a double token (piefort) with a milled edge.

Scripts: hebrajski, łaciński

Lettering: STATE OF ISRAEL 🕎 מדינת ישראל SILVER 935 כסף

Mint

Government Printer - Israel Mint, Tel Aviv, Israel

Comments

(en)

CHAIM HERZOG
STATE MEDAL, 1998/5758 Third Medal in the "Four Israel Presidents" Series, issued in Israel's 50th Anniversary Year.

Chaim Herzog, born in 1918 in Ireland, was the son of Rabbi Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog, who was to become Chief Rabbi of Israel, and his wife Sarah. He immigrated to the Land of Israel in 1935, studied in a Yeshiva in Jerusalem and volunteered to serve in the Jewish paramilitary group “Haganah”. During World War II he served in the British army and after the war filled a number of executive positions in the Jewish Agency. He fought in Israel’s War of Independence and was fundamental in the establishment of the Israeli Intelligence Corps. Herzog subsequently became head of the IDF Military Intelligence Branch and left the army with the rank of Major General. After the Six Day War in 1967 he was appointed to serve as Military Governor of Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria. In 1975 Herzog was appointed Israel's Ambassador to the United Nations and is particularly remembered for his speech, during which he tore up the UN resolution “Zionism is Racism”. He was elected Israel’s sixth president in 1983 and was actively involved in a variety of issues during his two five-year terms. Herzog’s active life was filled with unwavering faith in Zionism and Jewish Heritage.

Interesting to know:
With the beginning of the distribution of the medal and its awarding to the president's family, there was a reluctance on the part of the family regarding the design of Herzog's character.

Herzog's figure did not match the family's expectations and without choice the distribution of the medal was stopped, the stock was destroyed and the figure was redesigned.

The new figure was designed as a mature figure with rounded contours and a rounded chin. With the family's approval for the new design, the medal was issued again with the specifications and amount as planned and distributed to the public.

The design change was not announced to the general public and after a long time it was discovered. Eventually, the quantity of the issue from the first version, which was actually sold to the public, was published, and indeed it is a small quantity - only 80 units, a quantity which made the item valuable and difficult to obtain.

the 2 versions that were created:

version A - 80 exists

version B -

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Date	Mintage		Frequency
Undetermined
ND (1998)	1 104	(en) Rounded contours and a rounded chin	100%
ND (1998)	80	(en) Sharper contours and a sharper chin	25%

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Bullion value: USD 58.05 Search tips

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Actual srebro weight: 0.782 oz

Current srebro price: 74.28 USD/oz (see silver price

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