Historical and Art Medals, Numismatic Books

Germany, Drei Grafen von Spee [Deaths of the three Counts von Spee], 1914, a cast bronze medal by K. Goetz, facing busts of Heinrich, Maximilian and Otto von Spee above legend, rev. eagle preparing to mark a watery grave with a branch, 103mm (K. 146; Frankenhuis 529; BDM VII, 382; Hill 13; cf. DNW 40, 818). Very fine, rare (£120-150)

Illustration reduced. Maximilian Graf von Spee, admiral on HIMS Scharnhorst, together with his sons Heinrich and Otto, lieutenants on HIMS Gneisenau and Nürnberg respectively, lost their lives in a battle off the Falkland Islands on 8 December 1914