Lot 1396
Sale 88 · Important Australian & World Coins, Medals & Banknotes, Dr John Chapman Collection
Images
Description
Germany, W.W.I., cast medal in bronze (56mm) by K.Goetz, recording the disastrous British naval and land campaigns
in Turkey, 1915-16, obverse, depicts the English and French standing inside of the Turkish crescent, (in German)
Die Mondsuchtigen auf Gallipoli (The Sleepwalkers on the Gallipoli Peninsula), reverse, shows them reduced to
skeletons. Extremely fine.
- Estimate
- $300
- Result Status
- Sold
- Prices Realised
- $250