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Large Goetz Medal - The Three Counts of Spee

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Commemorative medal by Goetz, World War I depicting Admiral Count Heinrich von Spee, His Death and of his two sons, Battle of the Falkland Islands, 1914.

 

Diameter: 102.6mm. Kienast 146. I found this interesting original article from 1918 by the New York Times highlighting this medal among others as having an "Appeal to the Passions" as War Propaganda. 1918 New York Times Article

 

Obv. Count Maximilian Spee, sons Heinrich and Otto, 10-line tribute, Off the Falkland Islands on the High Seas lie three German Heroes, three Counts Spee.

Rev. Eagle with laurels over South Atlantic. E200-300 Sunk in battle off the Falklands were S.M.S. Scharnhorst, commanded by Admiral von Spee; Gneisenau and Nurnberg, served by his sons, 6 December, 1914. Heinrich von Spee commanded the German squadron on the Scharnhorst , his sons Maximilian and Otto were Lieutenants on the Gneisenau and Nürnberg respectively

 

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To give you a sense of the large size of this medal, see it aside a 60mm shooting medal I have.

 

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