Hello CT! I got this token because I loved the strike and content. Anyone have any further information about the token itself? My Googling was fruitless. Seller's Pics.
The motto says "many foes, much honor"... but I can't tell you anything else :-( Medal made at times of war. Bronze.
I would agree with you, Chris. I hope someone out there can attribute it and assign it some kind of a number. Such a neat piece!
It's an old proverb that was used in military and political propaganda of the day, Viel Feind Viel Ehr (The more enemies, the greater the honor.)
Yes, after what I've seen it's one of many propaganda medals made in the first year of WW1. And it's German, not Austrian or Hungarian. There are several translations of the proverb and personally, I like the one from Krispy best.
I think, it's the first feat of Heracles: suffocation of a lion. But it is allegory: Heracles - is Germany, Lion - are England, France and Russia.
I think it should be a dragon and not a lion. Also the descriptions on several web pages mention a dragonslayer. But as it doesn't seem to have wings I'd just call it a "beast"...
Could be Hercules fighting the Hydra of Lerna. Jan Wysocki for example did such designs; not sure whether this somewhat crude piece is one of his works. By the way, "Viel Feind, viel Ehr" goes back to Georg von Frundsberg (16c) ... Christian
