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Description: | obverse design and text: see MED 117
reverse text: "SCHLACHT BEI LONGWY UNTER D.DEUTSCHEN KRONPRINZEN D.22.AUGUST 1914" (embossed in six lines on plain background) & "18"
(embossed in very small characters at upper left edge)
German First World War patriotic 'victory' medalet (or 'Victory penny', designed to be worn on a watch chain), number
18 in a series of over a hundred coin-sized pieces in silver, chronicling German naval and military successes of the first two years of the
First World War. The obverse bears the standard design for the series, a winged figure of Victory holding a flaming sword and victor's
laurel wreath crown together with an inscription 'GOTT SEGNETE UNSERE TAPFEREN HEERE' ('God hath blessed our valiant Armies'). The reverse
text commemorates the German victory at Longwy in Lorraine during the Battle of the Frontiers and is translated as 'Battle of Longwy under
the German Crown Prince on 22 August 1914'. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | Western Front & Frontiers 7 DE.A & Army Battle of the & Longwy Battle of & 22/8/1914 commemorative First World War | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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