176, Lot: 320. Estimate $300. Sold for $525. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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Goetz Medals, Weimar Republic. AR Medal (36mm, 19.72 g, 12h). Stringent Exactions of the Palatinate under the Treaty of Versailles. Karl Goetz, designer. Dated 1920. DER GESSLER HUT IN DER / PFALZ, Gesslerhut surmounting fasces (i.e. France); starving and wailing people standing ariund / IM JAHRE DES HEILS, raised right fist, holding bound nude female being taunted by kneeling African; to right, French commander standing left with additional Affricans behind; edge: FEINSILBER. Kienast 265. EF. Rare in silver.
Ex Elsen 90 (9 December 2006), lot 1863.