Auction Catalogue

19 June 2002

Starting at 12:00 PM

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Ancient, British and World Coins. Tokens, Tickets and Passes. Historical and Art Medals. Numismatic Books. British and World Banknotes

Grand Connaught Rooms  61 - 65 Great Queen St  London  WC2B 5DA

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Lot

№ 937

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19 June 2002

Hammer Price:
£60

Germany, The First Trip to America by the Submarine Deutschland, 1916, an iron medal by B.H. Mayer, bust of Kapitän Konig three-quarters right, rev. submarine in foreground, white cliffs of Dover behind, large hand issuing from the clouds above attempting to catch the vessel, legend below, 60mm (Frankenhuis 802; BDM VIII, 36). Obverse very fine, reverse nearly so, rare (£50-70)

Commemorates the first trip to America by the submarine merchantman Deutschland, which left Heligoland on 23 June and arrived at Baltimore on 8 July 1916. She made the return journey from 1 August to 22 August