Historical and Art Medals

Kartenkönig [King of Cards], 1921, cast bronze, Kaiser, helmet in hand, walking left in front of the Netherlands Tax Office, speech bubble indicating his claimed net worth, rev. double conjoined portrait of Kaiser holding sceptre, 160 millionen gold in centre, 60mm (K 277). Very fine (£70-90)

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Karl Goetz Medals.

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Illustrated on the Plates. The medal is a pun on the former Kaiser’s tax declaration, in which he stated he was only worth one and a half million gulden; the reality was that the Kaiser was allegedly worth 160 million gulden in gold