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Auction 33  17-19 Jan 2019
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Lot 2048

Starting price: 90 USD
Price realized: 90 USD
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GERMANY: Weimar Republic, 2-medal set, ND, LOT of two medals, 1) silvered AE medal by Wittig-Friesen, medalist for Lauer in Nuremberg, SCHWARZE SCHMACH UND KULTURSCHANDE AM RHEIN, French-colonial soldier with rifle and bayonet harassing half-naked German woman kneeling right // DEUTSCHER NOT UND SCHMACHTALER, broken sword in earth below, 2) porzellanmedaille ND (1922), Scheuch-490, 48mm red porcelain medal with gilt border from Meissen, the so-called "Black Shame" medal, SCHWARZE SCHMACH UND KULTURSCHANDE, representation of the desecrated Lorelei as a screaming naked female figure held by a gorilla (personifying an African Colonial French soldier), flanked by two scepters with the heads of Gallic roosters; over the head of the gorilla, an aureole with the initials RF for Republique France above // DEUTSCHER NOT- UND SCHMACHTALER (German Emergency Shame Thaler), kneeling, weeping boy between two oak tree stumps sprouting new growth, broken sword below, both set in original box of issue with inside text inscribed Ein Betrag aus d. Erlös diere Münze fließt der Ruhr Flüchtlings-Hilfe zu, zu Gunsten unserer deutschen Brüder, die aus ihrer Rhein- und Ruhr Heimat vertrieben wurden, average quality examples, retail value $200, lot of 2 medals.

Estimate: 100-150 USD
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