Can any of you medalists identify this piece?

danglen

Bought a bunch of Darkside material the other day and this piece was part of the mix. It looks like it's been rode hard and put up wet, but I'm intrigued. Anybody able to shed some light on the subject?

CIVITAS

Prussian medal commemorating the Battle of Waterloo?

A google search of "preussen tapfern" medal turns up a vague reference to a Jstor article.

harasha

I would reference this from Wikipedia:

In 1813, following Napoleon's defeat in Russia, Frederick William turned against France and signed an alliance with Russia at Kalitsch, although he had to flee Berlin, still under French occupation. Prussian troops played a key part in the victories of the allies in 1813 and 1814, and the King himself travelled with the main army of Prince Schwarzenberg, along with Alexander of Russia and Francis of Austria.

lordmarcovan

Where's elverno these days?

harasha

Following up on Josh's lead, I checked a reference. All there was:

Medal, 1814
Copper (?), 29.5 mm
Inv. - NR.: ?
God was with us, it is the honour
Prussia Kriegern

(Google translation did not seem to handle the FW monogram. Also, I would expect Kriegern to be a reference to war).

I think Josh got a better result from his google search.

danglen

ttt because I'm still curious