Description: We combine shipping. Wait for invoice. ALL coins are removed from 2x2 and imaged with a 20-200X 5MP Microscope. They are illuminated with an OttLite Natural Daylight Lamp. This gives a detailed crisp image of the coins. The ONLY editing is to crop excess margins. The first Masonic Shekel was made in 1895. This is not the first. The Following is from Wright 3. It is the custom of Chapters using this type of Mark to consider them as"half" shekels but the Hebrew legend on the reverse reads SHEKEL ISREALThe Hebrew for half shekel is CHATZI HA-SHEKEL. The history of this type isas follows: In the year 1895 Comp. A. G. Pitts Sect'y. of King Cyrus No.133 Mich. chanced to see a shekel of the 2d year of the coinage of SimonMaccabeus and thinking its design very appropriate had a firm of manufacturingjewelers in Detroit copy the reverse. A keystone and necessary legendfor the obverse and the design was complete for an attractive looking Mark.Comp. Pitts being highly elated with his design published a descriptionof it in the Feb. (1896) number of the "American Tyler." It does not needwords of praise, for the simple fact that over thirty Chapters have copied, orplagiarized this design is sufficient proof of its value.When a man does so well that even his slightest errors are thus faithfullycopied mere words are inadequate to express the value of his work.Few are sufficiently familiar with Hebrew to detect the mistake. Comp.Pitts considered it as a "half" shekel and the present writer in the second listof the "Mark Penny" made the same error, hence in order that a whole shekelmay no longer be accepted as its half
Price: 9.99 USD
Location: Harriman, Tennessee
End Time: 2025-02-04T15:42:02.000Z
Shipping Cost: 1 USD
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Restocking Fee: No
Return shipping will be paid by: Seller
All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 30 Days
Refund will be given as: Money Back
Circulated/Uncirculated: Circulated
