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Description: | reverse text: "DIE SCHLACHT BEI GÖRZ DIE III.ITAL.ARMEE A. D.ISONZOFRONT ZURÜCK GESCHL.5.JULI 1915" (embossed around upper
and lower edges and in six lines on plain background) & "86" (imperfectly 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
86 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 Italian Front and is translated as 'The
Battle of Gorizia the Italian Army on the Isonzo Front driven back, 5 July 1915'. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | Battle of & 5/7/1915 AH.A (?) Italian Front & Gorizia commemorative First World War | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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