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KARL GOETZ BLACK SHAME MEDAL
I spotted a great medal in Joe Levine's latest
e-mail token and medal mini sale list #29. It's another Karl Goetz item.
-Editor
GERMANY. BLACK SHAME MEDAL, 1920. Kienast 262. 56.8mm. Cast Bronze. Karl Goetz, Sc. Edge marked: 'K. GOETZ" Choice About Uncirculated. Obverse bust right of an African soldier with exaggerated features wearing a French helmet facing right. The legend above translates as "The Watch on the Rhine." Dated 1920 to the back of the neck. Below: LIBERTE/ EGALITE/ FRATERNE/TE. On the reverse, a slumped naked figure of Lorelei is tied to a tree in the form of an erect penis capped by a French helmet. The German legend, DIE SCHWARZE SCHANDE translates as "The Black Shame." On this medal, Goetz protests against the use of black colonial French troops in order to occupy the Rhine territory, and their alleged sexual excesses. Next to the Lusitania medal, it is undoubtedly the most famous of all of Karl Goetz's medals. $650.00
You don't see THAT on a medal every day. What happens when the medal gets a little rubbing?
Joe's email address is JLEVINE968@aol.com -Editor Joe writes: Below is a link to our 82nd Exonumia Sale to be held on Saturday, June 30 in conjunction with Whitman's Coin & Currency Convention at the Baltimore Convention Center. This link will take you directly to a copy of our sale which you can read and download to your desktop. Thanks.
Joe Levine
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