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Description: | obverse design and text: see MED 169
reverse text: "ERSTÜRMUNG VON PETRIKAU DURCH DIE ÖSTERREICHER 18.DEZ.1914" (embossed around upper and lower edges and in four lines on
plain background) & "60" (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
60 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 Austrian military operations on the Eastern Front (Russian Poland) and is
translated as the 'Storming of Petrikau by the Austrians, 18 December 1914'. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | Eastern Front & Petrikau Capture of & 18/12/1914 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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