Germany, Lieber jede Not als Feindes Gebot [Rather Starvation than Submission], 1915, a cast iron medal by F. Eue, bust of Karl Helfferich right, rev. legend, 120mm (Frankenhuis 665; cf. BDW 26, 959). Extremely fine and a handsome portrait medal (£50-70)

The medal refers to the speech made by Dr Karl Theodor Helfferich (1872-1924), the German Finance Minister, to the Reichstag on 14 December 1915