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Auction 37  25 Sep 2019
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Lot 534

Estimate: 300 GBP
Price realized: 280 GBP
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Germany, World War I, the sinking of the RMS Lusitania, bronze medal, 1915, by Karl Goetz (1875-1950), the ship, laden with planes, guns and weaponary, sinking, KEINE BANN WARE, date below 5 MAI, rev. Death, as the clerk, selling tickets to a crowd that includes a top-hatted Count Johann-Heinrich von Bernstorff, the German Ambassador to the USA, raising a warning finger, 56.5mm., on a 4.4mm. thick flan (Kienast 156, pp.13-18; Fearon, The Lusitania Medal, NC, April 1965, pp.82-83), good very fine and rare
A variety in bronze with the original error date.
(300-400 GBP)
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