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Electronic Auction 529  14 Dec 2022
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Lot 934

Estimate: 250 USD
Price realized: 400 USD
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GERMANY, Weimar Republic. French Colonial Soldiers on the Rhine. AR Medal (36.5mm, 19.50 g, 12h). By Karl Goetz. Dated 1920. DIE · WACHT · AM · RHEIN !!, helmeted dead of French African soldier right; 1920 behind head; LIBERTÉ/EGALI TÉ/FRATERNI/TÉ below / DIE SCWARZE SCHMACH (The Black Disgrace), nude Loreli, broken harp to left, tied to post inscribed ZUM/HOHN/DER/DEUT-SCHEN/FRAU (to the scorn of the German Woman) and surmounted by French helmet; dead baby at base; radiant eye of God to upper left; K · G in exergue. Edge: BAYER. HAUPTMÜNZAMT · FEINSILBER. Kienast 263. Iridescent toning, slightly worn at high points. As made.

From the PS Collection of Medals of the Great War.
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