Watch List notes:

GERMANY, German Empire. German Aspirations in the First Year of the War. Cast Æ Medal (61mm, 89.49 g, 12h). By B.H. Mayer. Dually dated 1914 and 1915. GOTT MIT UNS, German knight on charging horse right; 1914/15 in exergue / German imperial regalia set on cushion; before, crossed swords with laurel and oak branches intertwined; (BHM) below; radiance from clouds above; below, ER HILFT DIR DURCH/(three bars) DARUM HINDURCH (three bars)/· DEIN GOTT IST DEINE BURG · (He helps yo through – that is why throughout – your God is your fortress) in three lines; Iron Cross below. Cf. Zetzmann 2162 (for type). Brown surfaces, light rubbing on highest points. As made. Very rare.

From the PS Collection of Medals of the Great War. Ex Stack's Bowers Galleries (14 August 2019), lot 22658.