DEATH SELLING TICKETS GREAT BRITAIN 1915 SINKING LUSITANIA SKELETON MEDAL PIRATE

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Great Britain 1915 “Death Selling Tickets” PCGS 62
Pirate Gold Coins Medal Treasure
GREAT BRITAIN. Bronze “Sinking of the Lusitania” Medal, 1915. PCGS MS-62 Brown Gold Shield.
Burns-4b; cf. Eimer-1941Ab (for British copy); cf. Kienast-156 (for prototype). British copy, after Goetz. Obverse: The Lusitania sinking in heavy seas; legend in five lines in exergue / GESCHAFT UBER ALLES (business above all), Death (as a skeleton) standing left within ticket booth marked CUNA[RD]/LINIE and CUNARD (the Cunard Line, owners of the ship) above and to right, and FAHRKARTEN/AUSGABE (ticket office) below; to left, queue of passengers, one of whom reads a newspaper with the headline U/BOO[T]/GEFAH[R] (U-Boat danger). Edge: Plain. Essentially as made. A popular reissue of the original Goetz medal, made for and sold in order to raise funds for charity.