Live auction - fme_1148881 - GERMANY - KINGDOM OF PRUSSIA - WILLIAM II Médaille, Commémoration de la bataille de Tannenberg et la libération de la Prusse-Orientale
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Live starting : Type : Médaille, Commémoration de la bataille de Tannenberg et la libération de la Prusse-Orientale
Date: 1914
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 990 ‰
Diameter : 33 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Engraver LÖWENTHAL Artur
Weight : 17,53 g.
Edge : lisse + SILBER 990
Puncheon : SILBER 990
Coments on the condition:
Patine grise hétérogène, légèrement irisée. Présence de coups et rayures
Obverse
Obverse legend : GENERAL OBERST V. BENEC- - KENDORFF U. HINDENBURG.
Obverse description : Buste en tenue militaire de face du colonel général von Hindenburg.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ZUR BEFREIUNG - OSTPREUSSENS // 1914.
Reverse description : Homme nu, une épée à la main, tuant un ours. Signé : L. DHR. LAUER. NUERNBERG.
Reverse translation : Pour la libération de la Prusse-Orientale.
Historical background
GERMANY - KINGDOM OF PRUSSIA - WILLIAM II
(15/06/1888-9/11/1918)
William II (27/01/1859-4.06/1941) is the eldest son of Frederick and Victoria of Saxe-Coburg Gotha. He is therefore the grandson of Queen Victoria of England. Emperor in 1888, he let himself be drawn into the First World War by his staff and had to abdicate in 1918. He took refuge in the Netherlands and died in 1941.
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