Austria, Empire. A Medallion Mocking Gabriele D’annunzio & A Medal For The Federal Gymnastics Festival, 1930 consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac 785" with pinback

785" with pinback

A certificate from the Heeres-Abnahmestelle (Army Acceptance Organization)

inscribed "III MEDALLA DE ORO DE LA CIUDAD DE BEJAR 1955" (III Gold Medal of the City of Béjar 1955) above two branches of laurel leaves linked together by a bow-tied ribbon at the junction

some marked to commemorate the 1936 Berlin Olympics with a flyover of proceedings

Footnote: Herbert Lance Wicks was born on September 15

Austria, Empire. A Medallion Mocking Gabriele D’annunzio & A Medal For The Federal Gymnastics Festival, 1930 consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac 785" with pinback1. An iron medallion made to mock Gabriele DAnnuzio who switched his stance from an avid advocator against war to making anti Austria war speeches, on the obverse of the coin is the biblical figure Judas, a known traitor, and the featured Latin text dulce et probatum est in patriam loqui (translation: it is sweet and approved to speak to the country), with reverse bearing German Dem Verdienstreichen redner von quarto gabriele d'annunzio (translation: