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Description: | obverse design and text: see MED 169
reverse text: "DIE SECHSTAGE-SCHLACHT AM SAN UNTER MACKENSEN 23.-29.MAI 1915" (embossed around upper and lower edges and in four lines on
plain background) & "76" (embossed in very small characters at upper left of piece)
German First World War patriotic 'victory' medalet (or 'Victory penny', designed to be worn on a watch chain), number
76 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 victorious Austro-German offensive in Galicia, specifically the
fighting in the regions of the River San, and is translated as 'The six day battle on the San under Mackensen, 23-29 May
1915'. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | Eastern Front & Gorlice-Tarnow DE.A commemorative First World War Breakthrough at & 23/5/1915 = 29/5/1915 AH.A | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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