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Description: | obverse design and text: see MED 169
reverse text: "BESCHIESS.VON SEWASTOPOL u.ODESSA DURCH D.TÜRK.FLOTTE 31.OKT.1914" (embossed in six lines and around lower edge) & "43" (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 43 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 the variant inscription, 'GOTT SEGNETE DIE VEREINIGTEN HEERE' ('God hath blessed the allied Armies'). The reverse text commemorates Turkish naval operations in the Black Sea and is translated as 'Bombardment of Sebastopol and Odessa by the Turkish fleet on 31 October 1914'. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | Turkish Navy Black Sea & Sebastopol Black Sea Bombardment of Odessa 1914 Bombardment of & 31/10/1914 commemorative First World War | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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