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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.

Bronze medal of the 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 the 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 the 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

Iron medal of the German Empire (HCR139208)

Period

Modern

Person

Karl Goetz

Mint

Munich (Modern)

Dating

1915

Obverse

KEINE BANNWARE / in exergue, DER GROSSDAMPFER / =LVSITANIA= / DURCH EIN DEVTSCHES / TAUCHBOOT VERSENKT / 5 MAI 1915, Lusitania depicted as an armed cruiser, sinking, deck loaded with contraband armaments including aircraft and cannon

Reverse

GESCHÄFT ÜBER ALLES, Death in a Cunard ticket window in New York City, standing near the line for tickets a man reads a newspaper on which is printed U-BOOT GEFAHR (“U-boat danger”); standing next to him a top-hatted and bearded figure, the German Ambassador to the US Count Johann-Heinrich von Bernstorff, raising a warning finger

Silver medal of the German Empire (HCR139228)

Period

Modern

Person

Paul Sturm, Robert Ball

Mint

Berlin (Germany)

Dating

1915

Obverse

GENERAL von GALLWITZ, Bearded bust to left

Reverse

LOMZA / OSTROW / WYSZKOW / ROZAN / R·BALL NACHF·VERL·, Hussar on horseback galloping to right, sword drawn.

Iron medal of the United Kingdom (HCR139237)

Period

Modern

Person

Karl Goetz

Dating

1915-1916

Obverse

Reverse

GESCHÄFT ÜBER ALLES, Death in a Cunard ticket window inNew York City, standing near the line for tickets a man reads a newspaper on which is printed U-BOOT GEFAHR (“U-boat danger”); standing next to him a top-hatted and bearded figure, the German Ambassador tothe US Count Johann-Heinrich von Bernstorff, raising a warning finger

Iron medal of the United Kingdom (HCR139238)

Period

Modern

Person

Karl Goetz

Dating

1915-1916

Obverse

Reverse

GESCHÄFT ÜBER ALLES, Death in a Cunard ticket window inNew York City, standing near the line for tickets a man reads a newspaper on which is printed U-BOOT GEFAHR (“U-boat danger”); standing next to him a top-hatted and bearded figure, the German Ambassador tothe US Count Johann-Heinrich von Bernstorff, raising a warning finger

Iron medal of the German Empire (HCR139239)

Period

Modern

Person

Karl Goetz

Dating

1915

Obverse

Reverse

GESCHÄFT ÜBER ALLES, Death in a Cunard ticket window inNew York City, standing near the line for tickets a man reads a newspaper on which is printed U-BOOT GEFAHR (“U-boat danger”); standing next to him a top-hatted and bearded figure, the German Ambassador tothe US Count Johann-Heinrich von Bernstorff, raising a warning finger