Medal Commemorating Admiral Reinhard Scheer and the Battle of Jutland, 1916 Artist: Hugo Kaufmann (German, 1868–1919)

1916

Numismatics

By appointment, Pratt Study Room
Medium

Silver

Dimensions

17.83 g, 12:00, 34.5 mm

Credit Line

Transfer from the Yale University Library, Numismatic Collection, 2001, Gift of Langhorne Gibson, B.A. 1922

Accession Number

2001.87.27482

Geography

Made in Germany

Culture

German

Period

20th century

Classification

Numismatics

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Numismatics

Obverse Description

Obverse Description: ADMIRAL SCHEER . DER SIEGER VOM SKAGERRAK. Bust of Admiral Scheer (left). In field below: 'H . K 1916.' (Professor Hugo Kaufman)

Reverse Description

Reverse Description: 31 . MAI- I . JUNI 1916. Port-bow view of a cruiser and port broadside view of another (left) steaming in a rough sea; a Zeppelin above.
Provenance
Langhorne Gibson, to about 1946; Yale University Library, New Haven, Conn., from about 1946 to 2001; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
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Object/Work type

medals

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