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Description: | obverse design: Hercules, struggling with a writhing and multi-tailed serpent-like monster. He holds the monster's neck
with his left hand and a club in his right
obverse text: "A.KVLTVRAERT.E'S.HAZAERT" (at beginning and end of text an ear of corn)
reverse design: corn-stalks, bundle of, tied. Above the corn a vertical sword, point uppermost. In the background the shining sun, its
emphatic rays extending to the upper portions of the design, partially obscured by the horizon. On either side of the bundle of corn equal
components of the date "1914" in massive and extremely stylised characters
reverse text: "A KÉVE" (upper edge) | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | Allegory First World War & 1914 | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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