Lot 3640
Sale 108 · Important Australian & World Coins, Tokens, Medals & Banknotes
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Description
Germany, WWI, The Sleepwalkers on the Gallipoli Peninsula, cast medal in bronze (57mm) by Karl Goetz, recording the disastrous British naval and land campaigns in Turkey, 1915-16, obverse, depicts the English and French 'sleepwalkers' standing inside of the Turkish crescent, 'Die Mondsuchtigen auf Gallipoli', reverse shows them reduced to skeletons (Kinast 169). Extremely fine and rare.
The only WW1 German commemorative medal with direct reference to the Gallipoli campaign.
- Estimate
- $500
- Result Status
- Sold
- Prices Realised
- $800