DescriptionCommemorates the 150th anniversary of the founding of the Bnai Brith service organization.Is it possible to describe Israel without taking sides? I’ll try. Modern Israel happened as a result of a side deal of the arrangement between Britain and France about how to divide up the Ottoman Empire after World War I. The British promised a “Jewish homeland,” and delivered, over objections from neighboring newly independent Arab countries, in 1947, when they divided their Palestine Mandate into Israel and Jordan.“Middle East” is, generally spealing, Morocco east to Afghanistan, Sudan in the south to Turkey in the north.By “Modern World Coins” we mean here, generally, the round, flat, shiny metal objects that people have used for money and still do. “Modern,” though, varies by location. There was some other way they were doing their economies, and then they switched over to “modern coins,” then they went toward paper money, now we’re all going toward digital, a future in which kids look at a coin and say “What’s that?” We’ll say: “We used to use those to buy things.” Kids will ask “How?” The main catalog reference is the Standard Catalog of World Coins, to which the KM numbers refer.
