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Hohenzollern Loins

harashaharasha Posts: 3,097 ✭✭✭✭✭
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produced at least one good thing. Princess Victoria Luise.
This zinc medal is kind of spooky, though. Meant to commemorate VL's work with children, the outer rim (forgot the numismatic term) shows heads of little children turns towards the princess. Unfortunately, it looks like something out of a horror movie!
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  • AuldFartteAuldFartte Posts: 4,597 ✭✭✭✭
    Neat item. The babies heads remind me of something out of Dante's Inferno, though.
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  • oldshepoldshep Posts: 3,240 ✭
    very cool - The uniform color is good for a zinc coin(medal) - sometimes they get real blotchy.
    Shep
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  • AskariAskari Posts: 3,713 ✭
    It does look like an unintentional death medal, doesn't it? image
    Askari



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  • StorkStork Posts: 5,206 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Normally I like things with babies on them, but the baby at 12 o'clock gives me the heebie-jeebies! Very interesting!

    Cathy


  • sumnomsumnom Posts: 5,963 ✭✭✭
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    That is creepy.
  • laurentyvanlaurentyvan Posts: 4,243 ✭✭✭
    Normally I like things with babies on them, but the baby at 12 o'clock gives me the heebie-jeebies!

    I agree, I wish I could see it larger-must be a trick of the light?image
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  • harashaharasha Posts: 3,097 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Not quite a trick of the light. The eyes and mouth are quite deep set. I suspect that the effect was more natural when the medal was fresh, in 1915.
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