Goetz: 4 of 6 Opus 156
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Opus 156: THE SINKING OF THE LUSITANIA (Die Torpedierung der Lusitania), 1915, Cast AE, 58mm.. On the occasion of the sinking issued by Karl Goetz in order to castigate the business sense of the Cunard Line. Inscription on the Obverse, “No Contraband.” In exergue “The liner Lusitania sunk by a German submarine May 7th, 1915.” Inscription on the Reverse “Business above all.” Headline on newspaper, “Submarine Danger,” below counter, “Ticket Office.” The original casting showed as date of the sinking May 5th, 1915, as taken by Goetz from an erroneous newspaper report. There are many copies in circulation, manufactured by the British as propaganda material. All of these are struck and most of them show the month as MAY instead of MAI, but also there exist copies with spelling MAI made by a firm in Pennsylvania after 1918.
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