Gold Coin Tower of Babel 10 NIS Israel Biblical Art 2002 Proof

Series "Biblical Art" 2002

This exclusive gold coin, issued by the Bank of Israel in 2002, is dedicated to famous biblical events, this time the Tower of Babel motif was chosen.

The coin is the seventh in the world's popular "Biblical Art" series and features on its reverse an abstract Tower of Babel motif constructed from words written in Hebrew describing this biblical event. The tower reaches to the sky and is surrounded by clouds. The lower part of the tower is flanked by the walls and the city of Babylon.

The obverse shows the national emblem of Israel surrounded by the denomination, the year of issue and the inscriptions in English/Hebrew: 'Tower of Babel GEN.11'. The inscriptions form a spiral shape, reminiscent of the view from the top of the tower.

"The whole earth was united in speech and action. "Now let us build ourselves a city and a tower, whose top shall be in heaven. And so we will make a name for ourselves and not be scattered throughout the earth." God said: "Behold, they are one people, and they all have one speech. And this is just the beginning of their work. Then they will not want to back down from anything they set their minds to do. Well, we will go down and confuse their speech there, so that they will not understand one another." And God scattered them throughout the land, so that they refrained from building the city. Therefore its name is called Babel (that is, Confusion), because there God confounded the speech of all the earth, and scattered the people throughout the land." GEN.11.
Success depends on one's ability to remain humane; the importance of individual worth should not be overshadowed by the importance of success; hearts should not be filled with overconfidence or presumption. Every corner of the world is significant, not just cities and their skyscrapers. The builders of the Tower of Babel failed to fulfill these humane provisions and were punished by God accordingly.

The coin comes in a gift box with a certificate of authenticity in a limited edition of only 750 pieces for the entire world!

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