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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Santinidollar, post: 4570330, member: 75866&quot;]Here’s my latest Karl Goetz medal called “The Historical Golden Pen.”</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1131628[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1131629[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><b>THE HISTORICAL GOLDEN PEN</b></p><p><i>(Die Historiche goldene Feder)</i></p><p><br /></p><p><b>1919, Cast bronze, Satirical medal, 59.4mm, 49.30g.</b></p><p><br /></p><p><b>Obverse:&nbsp; A quill and the Treaty of Versailles is shown with the signatures of Wilson, Lloyd George, and Clemenceau along with two unknown Germans, Herman Mueller and Dr. Bell. Inscription, <i>&quot;von den Deutschen nicht benzut&quot;</i> (not used by the Germans), Dated, June 28, 1919. K G in exergue bisected by document and seal.</b></p><p><br /></p><p><b>Reverse:&nbsp; A hand, labeled <i>&quot;Serajewo&quot;</i> and holding a burning torch, rises from the ground and sets the world on fire. Another hand, marked <i>&quot;Versailles&quot;</i>, feeds the raging flames with a broken and dead peace palm. Inscription, <i>&quot;Gedenktag zweier Weltverbrechen&quot;</i> (A Day of Commemoration for Two World Crimes.)</b></p><p><br /></p><p><b>To commemorate the assassination in Serajewo in 1914 and the signing of the Versailles Peace Treaty in 1919, both events falling on the same day but five years apart.</b></p><p><br /></p><p><b><i>Description from KarlGoetz.com</i></b>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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