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Description: | obverse design and text: see MED 169
reverse text: "ZUSAMMENBRUCH DER RUSSISCH.OFFENSIVE GEG.SCHLESIEN UND POSEN 17.DEZ.1914" (embossed around upper and lower edges and in five
lines on plain background) & "58" (embossed in faint and very small characters at centre left edge)
German First World War patriotic 'victory' medalet (or 'Victory penny', designed to be worn on a watch chain), number
58 in a series of over a hundred small coin-sized pieces in silver, chronicling German naval and military successes, and those of her
allies, in 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 the variant inscription 'GOTT SEGNETE DIE VEREINIGTEN HEERE' ('God
hath blessed the allied Armies'). The reverse text commemorates the German military operations on the Eastern Front (Silesia) and is
translated as 'Collapse of the Russian offensive against Silesia and Posen, 17 December 1914'. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | Eastern Front & Russian Offensive 1914 & 17/12/1914 DE.A commemorative First World War | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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