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Medal - The wooing of the Balkan Kings
| Location | Germany (1871-1948) |
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| Year | 1915 |
| Type | Advertising medallion |
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| Obverse description | Four caricatural figures in high relief depict Allied leaders supplicating before the Balkan states: at left, a kneeling figure with hands clasped in prayer (President Poincaré); at center-left, a kilted soldier kneeling with hands raised in imploration; at center-right, a standing figure in uniform holding a sword point-down (King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy); and at far right, a half-kneeling figure with right arm raised holding a knout (Tsar Nicholas II). The circular legend and date 1915 appear in the border, with decorative foliate elements in the exergue. |
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| Obverse lettering | DER BITTGANG AM BALKAN 1915 |
| Reverse description | Three caricatural portrait busts of Balkan monarchs are displayed within an ornate grill-like architectural framework, each identified by name in vertical panels: Ferdinand of Romania at left, Constantine of Greece at center, and Ferdinand of Bulgaria at right. Below the grill, three lower panels contain symbolic motifs: a dolphin vomiting coins at left, an embossed apple and heart at center, and a clenched fist at right. The legend appears in two lines across the lower field. |
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