GERMANY, German Empire. British Attempt to Break the Hindenburg Line. Cast FE Medal (57mm, 12h). By Karl Goetz. Dated 1917. FLANDERN • 1917, British Lion with Union Jack tied to tail standing right, snarling and pushing againrt corrugated iron wall (the Hindenburg Line), while German soldier attempts to keep it from falling; barbed wire below / SIEGESPREIS (The price of victory), snail right on mile marker inscribed ?/KM in two lines and set in the middle of No Man's Land; K · G in exergue. Kienast 197. In NGC encapsulation 3827989-005, graded MS 64.
From the PS Collection of Medals of the Great War. Ex Goldberg 91 (7 June 2016), lot 2678.