Product Overview
This little tiny medal is only 29 mm across and the entire medal bar measures just over an inch across.
The war between the Second French Empire and a Germanic coalition led by Prussia lasted from 1870 to 1871. It ended in the German Empires victory and a humiliated France.
The German War Commemorative Medal of 1870-71 was created in 1871 in two classes, Bronze for combatants, and steel for non-combatants. The edge of this bronze medal is stamped “AUS EROBERTEM GESCHUETZ” (From conquered cannon). The front has the royal cypher of Wilhelm I over the inscription “Dem siegreichen Heere” (To the victorious army). Inscribed around it is “Gott war mit uns, Ihm sei die Ehre” (God was with us, to Him be the glory). The reverse shows a Germanic cross, and at the center is a laurel wreath surrounding the years 1870 and 1871.
