German Medal info?

Broadstruck

Does anyone one know anything about this medal and when it was struck

lordmarcovan

I don't have much German, so bear with me and the Google translator. We'll see if we can read between the lines a bit, but first, the lines themselves.

VER SICH AUFS RUSSEN LEGT = something about "laying down on the Russians"?

ANFANG BEDENKE = "remember the beginning"?

DER LEGT SICH AUCH AUFS BETTE = "the acting also (... aufs bette? No clue)

DAS ENDE = "the end" (ha- I didn't need a translator for that)

OK, so this looks old to me. 18th century was my first impression. I suppose it could also date to the Napoleonic era.

If they're talking about doing something unsavory to the Russians, we're certainly not talking about WW2, here. The style and apparently curious word spacing tell us this piece is much older than that.

There's a starting point, anyway.

PS- of course with this site being the way it is (when it's not in Sleepytime), someone else will come along and with a snap of his fingers, identify the medal, attribute it by some esoteric catalog number, give you an exact dollar value, and a paragraph or two on its historical context.

harasha

Lordmarcoven appears to have been googling around the same time as me.
I will bet that the medal refers to the Russo-Prussian alliance of 1764.
The Austro-Russian alliance of 1781 negated the former, thus allegorizing Prussia to the bird underneath.

lordmarcovan

I think we're getting warmer. Thanks, harasha.