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Description: | obverse design and text: see MED 169
reverse text: "NÖRDL.D.WYSTYTER SEES STARKE RUSS.KRÄFTE GEWORFEN 9.NOV.1914" (embossed in six lines and around lower edge on plain
background) & "48" (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
48 in a series of over a hundred small coin-sized pieces in silver, chronicling German naval and military successes, and those of her
allies, 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 a German defensive action on the East Prussian frontier and is translated
as 'Strong Russian forces repulsed north of the Wystyt Lakes. 9 November 1914'. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | Eastern Front & Russian Offensive 1914 & Wystyt DE.A Battle near & 9/11/1914 commemorative First World War | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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