Lot (2) Hanukkah coins, Jerusalem and Poland.

Lot (2) Hanukkah coins, Jerusalem and Poland.
Channukia from Jerusalem -Coins with Channukiot, 1977, made of copper and nickel, Israel Government Coins and Medallions Corporation, in original packaging, diameter: 34 mm, weight: 15 grams.

Obverse: Nominal value "10 pounds" and below "Israel" in Hebrew, in Latin letters and in Arabic. And this year "5738-1977". 

Reverse: In the center - the menorah. On the upper part, a magen david from silver  of  is visible, and on the background of copper the word "Zion" is also silver. On the front is a brass ribbon, shaped like a half circle, holding eight holes for the oil cups. On either side of the menorah, behind it is the inscription "Channukia from Jerusalem" and below it is the inscription "20th century".

Scope: In the coin-proofing - grooved.

Stamp mark: On the face of the proof coin - the letter "M" in the center of the lower lip. 

Design: Rothschild and Lipman (Roly). 

In the twelfth Chanukkah coin there is a Jerusalem Menorah, commemorating the tenth anniversary of the unification of Jerusalem. 

The Jerusalem Menorah, which is located in the Museum of Ethnography and Folklore at the Eretz Israel Museum in Ramat Aviv, was apparently designed at the beginning of the 20th century. Silver inscription on brass says "This is Hanukah the house, Rafka Pardis, Jerusalem". 

Channukia from Poland:Chanukkah coin 1981, silver -850 coin, Israel Government Coins and Medallions Corporation, original packaging, diameter: 30 mm, weight: 14.4 grams.

Obverse: Nominal value - "NIS 1". Above him is the State emblem. In the language - "Israel" in Hebrew, in Arabic in Latin letters and the year "5742-1981".

Reverse: An upright menorah made of silver, dating back to 1854. Its head is a swan, with a flower-shaped protruding beneath it. Eleventh century. " 

Scope: In the regular currency - part circumference. 

Mint mark: On the back of the regular coin - a tiny Star of David. 

Design: Natan Karp. 

Mint: Regular coin - French National Mint.

The 16th Chanukkah coin was issued to commemorate the Jewish communities of Poland that were annihilated in the Holocaust. The Polish Jewish community was one of the oldest in Europe, about a thousand years old. A nation that experienced periods of hardship and strife, it grew over the centuries until it became the largest Jewish settlement in the world. In memory of Polish Jewry, a 19th-century Hanukkah lamp was engraved in the Hanukkah coin from the period when Poland was an important center for Jewish jewelry.