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in 2001, and in 2002 he was awarded the Irene Levi-sala Book Prize in
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Known to colleagues and friends as 'Yankele', Meshorer was born in
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in 1954. After completing his army service in 1956 he became a member of
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in numismatics in 1971 from the Hebrew
University. Meshorer served as a reservist in the Jerusalem Reconnaissance Company and in 1967 was slightly wounded in the
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coins. He was instrumental in the decision to base the design of many of the modern coins on ancient
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coinage, in this way linking past and present in the
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