Ancient, British and World Coins, Tokens, Historical Medals and Banknotes

Die Wacht am Rhein!! [The Watch on the Rhine], 1920, a cast bronze medal by K. Goetz, helmeted bust of French colonial soldier right, reverse naked female tied to a symbolic male penis, DIE SCHWARZE SCHANDE [The Black Shame], 58mm (K. 262; Dräger, Die Kunstmedaille in Deutschland V, p.137, 63; Jones, Dance of Death, 52; Art of the Medal, 399). Very fine and rare; one of the most poignant and viciously powerful medallic images of the 20th century (£50-80)

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Historical and Art Medals, the Property of a European Collector.

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Issued in protest against the decision to send black French colonial troops to occupy the Rhineland