Watch List notes:

GERMANY, Kaiserreich. temp. Wilhelm II. 1888-1918. Iron Medal (55mm, 40.25 g, 12h). The Sinking of the S. S. Lusitania. By K. Goetz. Dated 7 May 1915. KEINE BANN WARE! (no contraband!), the Lusitania sinking in heavy seas; in five lines in exergue, DER GROSSDAMPFER/=LUSITANIA=/DURCH EIN DEUTSCHES/TAUCHBOOT VERSENKT/5 MAY 1915 (the liner Lusitania sunk by a German submarine) / GESCHAFT UBER ALLES (business above all), skeleton (as Death) standing left within ticket booth marked CUNA[RD]/LINIE and CUNARD (the Cunard Line, owners of the ship) above and to right, and FAHRKARTEN/AUSGABE (ticket office) below; to left, queue of passangers, one of whom reads a newspaper with the headline U/BOO[T]/GEFAH[R] (U-Boat danger). Burns, Commemoration 3b2; Eimer 1941A var. (date); Kienast 156. dark gray surfaces. EF. Rare second issue, with corrected date.

Ex J. Eric Engstrom Collection (Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 395, 12 APril 2017), 531, purchased from Amsterdam, September 1965.