AUCTION 29: MILITARY ORDERS, DECORATIONS, ARMS AND ARMOR

A GERMAN BRONZE MEDAL FROM THE 1936 OLYMPIC GAMES

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Start price: $600

Estimated price: $900 - $1,100

Buyer's premium: 27%

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Bronze medal from the XI Olympiad won at the Olympic games in Berlin, Germany in 1936. Medal’s obverse bears a relief of the goddess Victory with a winner’s crown in her right hand and a palm leaf in her left, accompanied by the inscription, ”XI / Olympiad / Berlin / 1936”. The reverse contains a relief of an Olympian carried through a crowd and the Olympic stadium in the background. W/maker at rim B.H. Mayer Pforzheim.

Dimensions: D: 2 1/8 in., ( 5.5 cm.)