Ancient, British and World Coins and Banknotes

General von Beseler and the Fall of Antwerp, 1914, a bronze medal by R. Küchler and H. Grunthal, 34mm (Frankenhuis 517; BDM VII, 522; cf. DNW 54, 931); General von Beseler, a bronze medal, unsigned, bust right with uniform collar, rev. youth attacks with thunderbolts, 192mm, numbered on edge DS 60 - 22 ER [2]. Extremely fine, second an impressive medal (£80-120)

The German army made their ‘triumphal entry’ into Antwerp on the afternoon of 10 October 1914, “more like a pageant in a city of the dead…”