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Austrian Red Cross Submarine Medallion 1914-1915

Hello!
I have a 1915 Austrian Submarine medallion from WW1 (like the one shown in this post). It commemorates the loss of the SM U-5 (Commanded by Georg Von Trapp) and SM U-12 (Commanded by Egon von Lerch).
I know the history of the coin (generally) and the fate of the two boats. I recently found an article that informed me that the Austrian Red Cross made quite a few of these kinds of medallions to commemorate all sorts of things during the war.

My question is, does anyone have any deeper information on this specific coin? Has anyone ever purchased or sold one? And if so, what is it's worth?

I've had the coin for nearly 30 years, my father found it while working on repairing a garbage truck in the late 80's (he was a sanitation mechanic).

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