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Description: | whole: suspender : circular integral ring
obverse design: Victory, winged, full-length female figure facing and moving to left, wearing classical robes, holding a flaming sword in
her right hand and a circular wreath in her left. Positioned around the edge of the piece text and a narrow beaded border
obverse text: "GOTT SEGNETE UNSERE TAPFEREN HEERE"
reverse text: "BESCHIESSUNG DES KRIEGSHAFENS VON LIBAU DURCH DIE KREUZER AUGSBURG UND MAGDEBURG D.2.AUG.1914" (embossed in seven lines on
plain background) & "1" (very small embossed character at upper left edge)
German First World War medalet or 'Victory penny', struck in silver, the first in a numbered series of small coin
shaped pieces chronicling German military and naval successes of the first two years of the war. G F Hill estimated that ‘By April 1916
over one hundred of the so-called ‘Victory Pennies’ had been struck in silver for sale for a trifling sum. They are small pieces, about the
size of a threepenny bit, with a loop for hanging on a watch chain’. (‘The Commemorative Medal in the service of Germany’, 1917). Two
basic variations of the medalet appear to have been issued having different obverse texts (see MED 169). The obverse of this piece 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
inscription 'GOTT SEGNETE UNSERE TAPFEREN HEERE' ('God hath blessed our valiant armies).The reverse text of MED 117 commemorates the
bombardment of Baltic naval port of Libau by the Imperial German Navy's light cruisers Augsburg and Magdeburg on 2 August
1914. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | DE.N & SMS Augsburg Bombardment of & 2/8/1914 commemorative First World War Baltic Sea & Libau DE.N & SMS Magdeburg | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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