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Description: | obverse design and text: see MED 169
reverse text: "OESTERR.UNGAR.TRUPPEN NEHMEN LEMBERG IM STURM 22.JUNI 1915" (embossed around edge and in three lines on plain background) &
"81" (embossed in very small characters at upper left edge of piece)
German First World War patriotic 'victory' medalet (or 'Victory penny', designed to be worn on a watch chain), number
81 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 Austro-Hungarian military operations against the Russians in Galicia
(specifically their re-capture of Lemberg) and is translated as 'Austro-Hungarian troops take Lemberg by storm, 22 June
1915'. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | Eastern Front & Lemberg Recapture of & 22/6/1915 commemorative First World War AH.A | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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