GOETZ: Opus 294 Just arrived
cacheman
Posts: 3,118 ✭✭✭
Opus 294: BLOODSUCKER ON THE RHINE (Blutsauger am Rhein) 1923, Cast AE, 60mm, Rare in UNC.
Lampooning the harsh conditions of the reparation terms. The last penny is squeezed out of the German Michael lying under the huge screw press. On May 6, 1921 the London ultimatum reduced the total reparations payments to 33 billion dollars, with the immediate payment of 1 billion gold Marks. The German government accepts this ultimatum to avoid the occupation of the Ruhr territory. In November 1922, Germany asks for a freeze of payments for 3 or 4 years to stabilize the Mark and revive German industry and trade. This request was refused. The December 1922 conference of the Reparations commission realized that the German Government was bankrupt. In January 1923 on American dollar would by 10,000 Marks and not the usual four German Marks. This was the atmosphere in which Goetz created the medal called “Bloodsucker.” Obverse shows new born (Germany) being sucked dry by a large leech. Reverse mentioned above has inscriptions “Boches (a French cuss word for Germans) squeezed dry, 1923.
Lampooning the harsh conditions of the reparation terms. The last penny is squeezed out of the German Michael lying under the huge screw press. On May 6, 1921 the London ultimatum reduced the total reparations payments to 33 billion dollars, with the immediate payment of 1 billion gold Marks. The German government accepts this ultimatum to avoid the occupation of the Ruhr territory. In November 1922, Germany asks for a freeze of payments for 3 or 4 years to stabilize the Mark and revive German industry and trade. This request was refused. The December 1922 conference of the Reparations commission realized that the German Government was bankrupt. In January 1923 on American dollar would by 10,000 Marks and not the usual four German Marks. This was the atmosphere in which Goetz created the medal called “Bloodsucker.” Obverse shows new born (Germany) being sucked dry by a large leech. Reverse mentioned above has inscriptions “Boches (a French cuss word for Germans) squeezed dry, 1923.
0
Comments
myEbay
DPOTD 3
P.S. Must be something in that greek humor
09/07/2006
Shep
"Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you." -Luke 11:9
"Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD: And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might." -Deut. 6:4-5
"For the LORD is our judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD is our king; He will save us." -Isaiah 33:22