AoD 7513.7155.156.a

MaterialIron Date 1915 – 1915 CE SourceAmerican Numismatic Society

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Description

Obverse

KEINE BANNWARE/ in exergue, DER GROSSDAMPFER/ =LVSITANIA=/ DURCH EIN DEVTSCHES/ TAUCHBOOT VERSENKT/ 5 MAI 1915 — Lusitania depicted as an armed cruiser,sinking, deck loaded with contraband armaments including aircraft and cannon

Reverse

GESCHÄFT ÜBER ALLES — Death in a Cunard ticket window inNew York City, standing near the line for tickets a man reads a newspaper on which is printed U-BOOT GEFAHR (“U-boat danger”); standing next to him a top-hatted and bearded figure, the German Ambassador tothe US Count Johann-Heinrich von Bernstorff, raising a warning finger

Source record

– Unchecked http://numismatics.org/collection/0000.999.23711

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