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An image showing 'Medal commemorating the sinking of the SS 'Lusitania', 1915. Obverse: Death crouching over the 'Lusitania' sinking by the stern. MEC2373'
An image showing 'Reverse: Inscription, within a cartouche shaped like a pentagram with scalloped edges, 'DEM VERÄCHTER DER . MEC2373'
An image showing 'Medal commemorating the sinking of the SS 'Lusitania', 1915; obverse'
An image showing 'Medal commemorating the sinking of the SS 'Lusitania', 1915; reverse'
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Medal commemorating the sinking of the SS 'Lusitania', 1915

Medal commemorating the sinking of the SS 'Lusitania', 1915. Obverse: Death crouching over the 'Lusitania' sinking by the stern. Legend: 'HEIMTÜCKE . U . GEWARNTER . LEICHTSINN . AN . BORD . D . LUSITANIA.' (Malice and forewarned foolhardiness on board the 'Lusitania'.) Reverse: Inscription, within a cartouche shaped like a pentagram with scalloped edges, 'DEM VERÄCHTER DER . WARNUNG WOODROW WILSON 1916.' (To the scorner of the warning, Woodrow Wilson, [President USA] 1916.)
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Object details

ID: MEC2373
Collection: Coins and medals
Type: Medal
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Eberbach, W.
Places: Germany
Events: World War I: Sinking of the Lusitania, 1915; World War I, 1914-1918
Vessels: Lusitania 1906 (SS)
Date made: 1916
People: Eberbach, W.
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: Overall: 68 mm