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K-188

AMERICAS PEACE OBJECTIVES

(Amerikas Friedensziele)

1917, Blackened Cast Iron, satirical medal, 57.8mm, 58.2g, Frankenhuis 1466.

Obverse: Uncle Sam, in an armed merchant sailing vessel, trying to steer the ship from the stern while sitting backward to the bow. In border, "Friedensziele" (Objects of peace). K - G bisected by the sails.

Reverse: An Englishman, shipwrecked and drowning, is trying to catch a life-buoy marked,"Amerika". In border, "3. Februar 1917".

Grade: SS+/VZ

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