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Medals & Decorations

The Ashmolean Museum has a very good collection of British historical medals, dating from the Tudor period to the present day, with particularly high concentrations for the 18th and 19th centuries. Its continental and world holdings are very diverse, with some particularly significant medals of the Italian Renaissance; Germany and the Low Countries in the Renaissance and Baroque age; the papacy; etc. The decorations are mostly British and date from the mid-19th to the mid-20th century.

Silver medal of German Empire (HCR139173)

Period

Modern

Person

Rudolf Kube

Mint

Berlin (Germany)

Dating

1915

Obverse

GOTT SEGNETE DIE VEREINIGTEN HEERE, Victory holding a flaming sword and victor's laurel wreath crown

Bronze medal of German Empire (HCR139188)

Period

Modern

Person

Karl Goetz

Mint

Munich (Modern)

Dating

1915

Obverse

DREIBVNDSCHMAROTZER - TREVBVND - VER - ROTZER / K. G, German and Austrian-Hungarian soldier pushing captive Italian soldier in front of them to right

Reverse

ITALIEN'S POLITIK DER FREIEN HAND 1915, double-headed (Germany/Austria-Hungary) eagle attacking hatted figure (Russia); male figure (Italy) on its back attacking eagle

Bronze medal of German Empire (HCR139192)

Period

Modern

Person

Karl Goetz

Mint

Munich (Modern)

Dating

1915

Obverse

DER BITTGANG AM BALKAN / 1915, Central Power leaders kneeling and begging

Reverse

In exergue: Hilfe! Balkan! / Streit für uns!, behind a grate: three medallions: FERDINAND RUMAENIEN,bearded bust to right; CONSTANTIN / GRIECHENLAND, bearded bust facing; FERDINAND BULGARIEN, bearded bust to left; beneath: pile of coins, to right: a hand, to left: fish-like creature with opened mouth to right

Iron medal of German Empire (HCR139193)

Period

Modern

Person

Karl Goetz

Mint

Munich (Modern)

Dating

1915

Obverse

DER BITTGANG AM BALKAN / 1915, Central Power leaders kneeling and begging

Reverse

Iron medal of German Empire (HCR139194)

Period

Modern

Person

Karl Goetz

Mint

Munich (Modern)

Dating

1915

Obverse

. WOODROW . WILSON . / LIBERTY . NEVTRALITY . HVMANITY / in field, 1914 -- 1915 / KG, Bust of US President Woodrow Wilson, facing; wearing glasses, crowned with laurel wreath

Reverse

AMERIKA'S NEVTRALES . HANDELN, Uncle Sam sitting atop cannon balls to left; holding ship in left hand and money bag in right hand; large cannon in background

Bronze medal of German Empire (HCR139199)

Period

Modern

Person

Karl Goetz

Mint

Munich (Modern)

Dating

1915

Obverse

1915 / in exergue, ÄGYPTEN / ERWACHT / KG, sphinx to right with head turned to left; background: two pyramids, camels and their riders, and people on foot marching to left; crescent and star above

Reverse

SIR GREY ZEIG' DEINE MACHT!, bust of Sir Grey, facing, hands visible and clenched; behind his left shoulder: skull of a skeleton, holding hour glass in its right hand behind Grey's right shoulder

Bronze medal of German Empire (HCR139203)

Period

Modern

Person

Karl Goetz

Mint

Munich (Modern)

Dating

1915

Obverse

GENERALFELDMARSCHALL . V . MACKENSEN, facing bust turned slightly to right

Reverse

ENDE . DER . RVSSENHERRSCHAFT . IN . GALIZIEN, whip and wheat stalks crossed, sickle below

Bronze medal of German Empire (HCR139205)

Period

Modern

Person

Karl Goetz

Mint

Munich (Modern)

Dating

1915

Obverse

In exergue: 1915, A Viking-type ship at sea with Death dressed as officer standing behind mast holding US and British flags; Grey in top hat crouching

Reverse

HONI . SOIT . QVI . MAL . Y . PENSE - in field, MIT / NEVTRALEN / - FLAGGEN - / HOHEITSGEBIETEND / STELLT SICH ZUR WEHR / DER-EDLE BRITE-DER / WELTMEERBEHERRSCHER / NACH SEERAEVBER SITTE, Legend in field surrounded by life preserver as border on which outer legend

British commemorative medal - tercentenary of the death of William Shakespeare (HCR95604)

Period

Modern

Person

William Shakespeare, Messrs Vaughton, Dorothy Dick

Dating

1916

Obverse

SHAKESPEARE TERCENTENARY / Dorothy Dick, draped bust of William Shakespeare, closely following the Stratford memorial bust, bare head facing; signature of the artist, bottom

Reverse

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE · BORN 1564 DIED 1616 · / STRATFORD-UPON-AVON · 1916 ·, Arms of Stratford-upon-Avon on leaves. Inscription in two concentric circles around

British commemorative medal - tercentenary of the death of William Shakespeare (HCR95605)

Period

Modern

Person

William Shakespeare, Messrs Vaughton, Dorothy Dick

Dating

1916

Obverse

SHAKESPEARE TERCENTENARY / Dorothy Dick, draped bust of William Shakespeare, closely following the Stratford memorial bust, bare head facing; signature of the artist, bottom

Reverse

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE · BORN 1564 DIED 1616 · / STRATFORD-UPON-AVON · 1916 ·, Arms of Stratford-upon-Avon on leaves. Inscription in two concentric circles around

Modern

Dating

1916

Obverse

1616 / NEW YORK CITY SHAKESPEARE TERCENTENARY CELEBRATION / 1916, coat of arms of William Shakespeare, with eagle holding lance; above, leaves of laurel

Reverse

CALIBAN / PARTICIPANT / By the / YELLOW SANDS, theatrical mask with tie

American commemorative medal - tercentenary of the death of William Shakespeare (HCR95778)

Period

Modern

Dating

1916

Obverse

1616 / NEW YORK CITY SHAKESPEARE TERCENTENARY CELEBRATION / 1916, coat of arms of William Shakespeare, with eagle holding lance; above, leaves of laurel

Reverse

CALIBAN / PARTICIPANT / By the / YELLOW SANDS, theatrical mask with tie

Bronze/copper medal of German Empire - Lord Balfour and the "Lusitania", Satirical Medal (HCR98597)

Period

Modern

Person

Sir Winston Churchill, Karl Goetz

Mint

Munich (Modern)

Dating

1916

Obverse

DIFFICILE EST SATI RAM NON SCRIBERE / DIE · LVSITANIA · MVENZE / GIBT · LORD · BALFOVR / STOFF · Z · REDEN / 9·XI·1916, First Lord of the Admiralty Arthur Balfour showing Goetz’s Lusitania medal to Prime Minister H. H. Asquith (or David Lloyd George?) and Lord Grey (or Sir Winston Churchill?); Goetz in the background sketches the scene while being reprimanded by Lord Grey (or Sir Winston Churchill?); Latin inscription a quotation from Juvenal (Juv. 1.1.29)

Reverse

ENGLISCHE HETZ ARBEIT IN SCHWEDEN / ENGL / FLUG / BLATT / EIN / DEVTSCHER / SEE SIEG / LU / SITA / NI / A / M / EDAI / LLE / 1916 / K · G, Scots military piper, (personification of perfidious Albion) walking right whilst playing, wearing inscribed scroll