Watch List notes:

FRANCE: AE medal, 1914, 70mm, bronze medal by P. Theunis for the Defense of Namur, and the Debarkation of the Garrison at Ostend; the obverse depicts the city of Namur as a crowned woman standing, her arms crossed in defiance, flanked by two nude female figures, seated and resting. The seated figures personify the Sambre and Meuse rivers; inscribed around the top border is NAMUR BRAVE LES OBUS AUTRICHIENS (Namur braves the Austrian shells), with a bridge and mountainscape in the background; the engraver's signature, P. THEUNIS, appears above the exergue, in which is inscribed 4-25 AOUT 1914 (August 4 to 25, 1914); a circled AM monogram below the nude at right stands for the Amis de la Medaille d'Art (Friends of the Art Medal) // on the medal's reverse, in the left foreground a soldier stands while another soldier sits at right; P. THEUNIS is below, in the background, soldiers disembark from a military ship at right; the tower of St. Paul's Church of Ostend is seen at left, inscribed around is SA GARNISON DEBARQUE A OSTENDE (Garrison landing in Ostend); in the exergue, in two lines, appears 2 ET 3 SEPTEMBRE / -1914. (Sept. 2 and 3, 1914), AU. The dates mark the August 4 start of German forces shelling Namur, using heavy artillery on loan from Austria-Hungary, and the end of the bombardment August 25 with the city's last fort leveled, forcing the evacuation of Belgian forces to Antwerp by way of Ostend.

Estimate: 125-175 USD