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Description: | obverse design and text: see MED 169
reverse text: "SIEGREICHE SCHWERE KÄMPFE BEI YPERN u.NIEUPORT OKT.-DEZ.1914" (embossed around upper and lower edges and in five lines on
plain background) & "54" (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
54 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 German military operations on the Western Front (as part of the 'race to
the sea' and First Battle of Ypres) and is translated as 'Victorious violent battles near Ypres and Nieuport, October - December
1914'. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | First Battle of & 10/1914 = 12/1914 Western Front & German Offensive 1914 & Ypres DE.A commemorative First World War | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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