Featured Lusitania Medal

Very cool piece by a very talented artist. Fascinating history that changed the world. Karl Goetz also produced several pattern designs for German coinage that were never adopted. Some of his designs were really lovely. I'm fortunate enough to own a pattern of his and it's my favorite coin in my collection.

 

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Yep, while most of Goetz's medals are pretty bad political propaganda, his coin patterns are better. After all, he was a creative and skilled designer, and even his worst "minted cartoons" usually are technically well done ...

Christian

 

Totally agree.

 

Just realized do all the copy/original have an error on them? Lusitania was sunk May 7th but every medal has it as May 5th.....

 

Have a look at the earlier posts in this topic, and/or at http://www.lusitaniamedal.com/ (the "Medal" and "Varieties" sections) for example.

Christian

 

Lusitania had been officially requisitioned by the Royal Navy as an armed merchant cruiser in 1914. She was also, Millennium Falcon style, fitted with secret compartments to surreptitiously carry arms and ammunition. Legally, she was a legitimate target anywhere outside a neutral's territorial waters, and anybody choosing to travel on her into a defined military exclusion zone was responsible for what happened to him.

 

Did you read the article thoroughly? I discussed that...

 

Beautiful

 

I went to the Charlotte, NC coin show, and I saw about a half dozen of these.

 

Good to know! If I ever get to NC, I'll be going to that show and trying to find an original.

 

I think that I saw this original at the Chicago Worlds Fair of Money in 2014. It was featured amongst many WWI MEDALS. I took many pictures. but if you want I can try to find them. Great coin. "History is planned, not made"

 

More photos of varieties are always welcome.

 

Well, I finally found the WWI medals, they are beautiful pieces of art along with some really nice workmanship.

 

These were exhibits at the World's Fair of Money 2015.

 

This arrived today. It's a British version of the medal, of course. It's a bit chilling to hold this piece of history.

 

HI everyone, Im new here. I have been finding coins for decades and selling them as I get them. I dont know much about coins. I am getting more interested though. My member image is of an 1875 argcultural medal for best sheep so I thought it would be cool to use as my image. BUT I also found a lusitania medal with some original ad for it from an old paper being sold my a military personal from a US base, not sure how that helps with the coin. it looks brass or bronze. Were these coins cast or stamped? Im guessing cast because the originals seem to all have very small air bubbles from the casting process. ANY help please post, thanks GRANT!

 

I missed this back in March. Very cool! Thanks for sharing. I agree, these pieces are chilling.

 

Woops I think I deleted my initial post. I have been finding coins over the years and found a lusitania 1915 coin with an original ad for sale with the address being a US military base. I dont know much about these any help? are they cast or stamped, i notice all the originals have air bubbles from maybe casting flaws? here is my coin, any help Please post, thanks (im new here) Grant

 

Looks like you forgot to add photos. Click upload a file and share with us what you have. It sounds like you have a British reproduction from what you're saying.