Germany, Väterchen Sorgt für die Seinen [The Little Father Cares for his People], 1916, a cast iron medal by W. Eberbach, skeletal figure of Death wearing a Russian cap, holding sickle to left of crowd, rev. dem friedensczar nicolaus ii v russland within pentagonal cartridge formed of bones, 68mm (Frankenhuis 1498; BDM VII, 245). Extremely fine, rare (£150-200)

‘Little Father’ was the Russian nickname for Czar Nicholas