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354, Lot: 793. Estimate $200.
Sold for $300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

GERMANY, Weimarer Republik. 1918-1933. Æ Medal (58mm, 56.07 g, 12h). Woodrow’s Mousetrap. By K. Goetz. Dually-dated 14 October 1918 and 28 June 1919. WOODROW’S MAUSE FALLE (Woodrow’s mousetrap), elaborate trap; SYST : SCHUFTERLE (system scoundrel) in exergue / President Woodrow Wilson, wearing laurel wreath, reclining left in galley, the back of his seat inscribed WELT/IMPERIALISM/UNSER ZIEL (“world imperialism is our goal”) in three lines; Statue of Liberty upon the horizon; in three lines in exergue, IN SEELENRUH/GONDELT ER DER/HEIMAT ZU (“he is sailing home in much tranquility”). Kienast 227. EF.


Ex Duplicates from the Kisch Medal Collection sold on behalf of the American Numismatic Society (Classical Numismatic Group 91, 19 September 2012), lot 1659.