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

Germany, Deaths of the three Counts von Spee, 1914, a cast bronze medal by K. Goetz, facing busts of Heinrich, Maximilian and Otto von Spee above legend, reverse eagle preparing to mark a watery grave with a branch, 103mm (K. 146; BDM VII, 382; Hill 13). Very fine, rare (£70-90)

Maximilian Graf von Spee, admiral on HIMS Scharnhorst , together with his sons Heinrich and Otto, lieutenants on HIMS Gneisenau and Nürnberg respectively, lost their lives in a battle off the Falkland Islands on 8 December 1914