Holy Land. Honors and awards Meshorer was invited to lecture and research at several major institutions, including the American Numismatic Society in New York City, Duke University, the British Museum, the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York, and the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris. Among the honors Meshorer received were the Huntington Medal of the American Numismatic Society in 2001, and in 2002 he was awarded the Irene Levi-sala Book Prize in Archaeology of Israel for his book ‘A Treasury of Jewish Coins From the Persian Period to Bar-Kochba’. He was elected an honorary member of the Council International Numismatic Commission at the opening of the 13th International Numismatic Congress of Madrid in 2003. In 2002 a prize, the Ya'akov Meshorer Numismatic Prize, was established in memory of Meshorer at the Israel Museum; its first recipient was Dr. Andrew Burnett in 2002, and the second Michel Amandry in 2006. Meshorer died in Jerusalem aged 69 after a six-year battle against cancer. References Publications ‘A Treasury of Jewish Coins From the Persian Period to Bar-Kochba’, Yad Ben-Zvi Press, Jerusalem (2001) 'Coins of the Ancient World (Lerner Archaeology Series: Digging Up the Past)' Lerner Publishing Group (1980) 'A Treasury of Jewish Coins' Amphora Books (2001) 'Palestine-South Arabia (American Numismatic Society: Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum)' American Numismatic Society (1981) 'City-Coins of Eretz-Israel and the Decapolis in the Roman Period' The Israel Museum, Jerusalem (1985) 'Coins of the Holy Land' American Numismatic Society (2006) 'Jewish Coins of the Second Temple Period' Am Hassefer and Massada, Tel Aviv, (1967) 'Ancient Jewish Coinage Volume I: Persian Period Through Hasmonaeans' Amphora Books (1982) ASIN: B000MMINWI 'Ancient Jewish Coinage Volume II: Herod the Great Through Bar Cochba' Amphora Books (1982) 'Testimoney' Amphora Books (2001) 'The Coinage of Aelia Capitolina' Israel Museum (1989) Ya'akov Meshorer and Shraga Qedar 'The Coinage of Samaria in the Fourth Century BCE' Numismatics Fine Arts International (1991) External links ‘In Israel, a Send-Off For Sinai Treasures’ New York Times July 21, 1994 The Israel Numismatic Society obituary American Numismatic Society obituary Meshorer in The Israel Museum Magazine 1935 births 2004 deaths Israeli numismatists Israeli non-fiction writers Israeli information and reference writers Israeli twins Writers from Jerusalem 20th-century Israeli male writers Deaths from cancer in Israel