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Description: | obverse design and text: see MED 117
reverse text: "IN OSTPREUSSEN D.RUSS.NJEMEN-ARMEE VOLLSTÄNDIG GESCHLAGEN D.11.SEPT.1914" (embossed in eight lines on plain background) &
"32" (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
32 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 rout of the invading Russian Forces in East Prussia and is translated as 'In East Prussia the Russian Njemen
Army completely defeated on 11 September 1914'. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | DE.A commemorative First World War Eastern Front & Russian Offensive 1914 & 11/9/1914 | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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