Ancient, Celtic, British and World Coins, Historical and Art Medals

WORLD ART MEDALS Germany, 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; DNW 35, Lot 704). Very fine and rare; one of the most poignant and viciously powerful medallic images of the 20th Century (£60-80)

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