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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Wehwalt, post: 2214244, member: 33595&quot;]Here are some mourning medals, from 1888.&nbsp; Kaiser Wilhelm I died that year at the age of 90, he&#039;s commemorated in one of them.&nbsp; His son, Kaiser Friedrich, was the great hope of German liberals.&nbsp; With his wife, Victoria (daughter of the Queen) he was supposed to modernize Germany, but his father obstinately insisted on living to a very ripe old age, by which time Friedrich was ill with throat cancer and reigned only 99 days.&nbsp; Two of them are for him, and one of them are for both of them.&nbsp; Friedrich was succeeded by Kaiser Wilhelm II, of World War I fame. I think that&#039;s him on the reverse of the medal with his father and grandfather. &quot;Lerne leiden ohne zu klagen&quot; means &quot;learn to suffer without complaint&quot;, something closely associated with Friedrich, part of whose treatment included trying to burn out the cancer by poking the inside of his throat with red-hot instruments.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]432977[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]432978[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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