Israel's annual Hanukkah coin series, running since 1958, has documented Jewish lamp styles from diaspora communities around the world — each year's issue drawing from a different cultural tradition. The English lamp type selected for this 1998 piece reflects the distinct brass and silver lamps produced by Anglo-Jewish craftsmen during the 18th and 19th centuries, a period when the community in London enjoyed relative stability under gradually expanding civil rights.
KM#314 is a circulation commemorative, not a proof-only release, meaning examples did see general use.
Israel's annual Hanukkah coin series, running since 1958, has documented Jewish lamp styles from diaspora communities around the world — each year's issue drawing from a different cultural tradition. The English lamp type selected for this 1998 piece reflects the distinct brass and silver lamps produced by Anglo-Jewish craftsmen during the 18th and 19th centuries, a period when the community in London enjoyed relative stability under gradually expanding civil rights.
KM#314 is a circulation commemorative, not a proof-only release, meaning examples did see general use.