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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Drusus, post: 464788, member: 6370&quot;]I posted this before I am sure but I just got the page up for this medal so I thought I would show it...it take me much too long to get these pages up <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align: center"><font size="4"><font face="Arial">BRONZE MEDAL / FRANKFURT / 1904</font></font></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.cachecoins.org/philantropins.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><b><font face="Arial">Bronze Medal Commemorating 100 Years Since the Founding of the Philanthropin Jewish School in Frankfurt am Main in 1804</font></b></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><font face="Arial"><font size="2"><i><b>Obverse:</b> </i>Depicting a man working in the fields planting seeds with the city of Frankfurt in the background<i> / &quot;The youth is the time of the seed&quot;</i></font></font></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><font size="2"><font face="Arial"><i><b>Reverse:</b></i> Depicting wheat bundles with a beehive separating the dates / <i>&quot;Century Celebration of the Philanthropins&quot;</i> / <i>&quot;For Enlightenment and Humanity&quot; - School Motto</i></font></font></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><font face="Arial"><b>The Philanthropin</b> was a school for poor Jewish children in the city of Frankfurt&#039;s Judengasse, the oldest Jewish Ghetto in Germany. It was founded by Mayer Amschel Rothschild, with his head clerk and bookkeeper Sigmund Geisenheimer, in 1804. </font></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><font face="Arial"><font size="2">Rothschild was born in the Judengasse as one of eight children. He went on to become the founder of the most successful, powerful, and influential business and banking dynasty in history.</font></font></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><font face="Arial"><font size="2">This medal was issued to celebrate the schools 100th year.</font></font></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><font face="Arial">The Nazi party seized power in 1933 and in 1938 the Ministry for Science and Education revoked its status as a public school. By 1941 most of the students and teachers had been deported to concentration camps and murdered. </font></p><p><br /></p><p><font face="Arial">Since the end of World War II it has served a variety of purposes (clinic, community center, etc.) until it was again made a Jewish school. It was renamed the I.E. Lichtigfeld School after Rabbi and teacher Isaac Emil Lichtigfeld.</font></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><font face="Arial"><img src="http://www.cachecoins.org/phildetails.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></font></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><font face="Arial">Detail</font></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><font face="Arial"><img src="http://www.cachecoins.org/philRothschild.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></font></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><font face="Arial"><i>Mayer Amschel Rothschild</i></font></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><font face="Arial"><img src="http://www.cachecoins.org/judengasse.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></font></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><i><font face="Arial"><font size="2">Three different views of the Judengasse (Jews Ally or Lane) Ghetto in Frankfurt</font></font></i></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><font face="Arial"><img src="http://www.cachecoins.org/Philantropinschool.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></font></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><i><font face="Arial">The Philanthropin Today</font></i></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><a href="http://www.cachecoins.org/philanthropins.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.cachecoins.org/philanthropins.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.cachecoins.org/philanthropins.htm</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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