AoD 7513.7155.294.a

MaterialBronze Date 1923 – 1923 CE SourceAmerican Numismatic Society

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Description

Obverse

BLUTSAUGER AM RHEIN — A crying baby lying on its back in a grapevine, his head to the left, with a large grape cluster below. Attached to the baby's left, lower chest is a gigantic, bloated, blood-sucking leech. In the field above the leech is the symbol for the French Republic.

Reverse

BOCHES' FEST AUSGEPRESST — The German Micheal is in a screw press which is being turned by the heads of two French soldiers. The few remaining coins are being squeezed from the Micheal's pockets.

Source record

– Unchecked http://numismatics.org/collection/1934.145.44

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