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Medal commemorating Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin (1838-1917) and the German fleet
Medal commemorating Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin (1838-1917) and the German fleet. Obverse: Bust of Count von Zeppelin in uniform (three-quarter right). Legend: 'EXCELLENZ GRAF FERD. VON ZEPPELIN'. Reverse: Field divided, above, a distant view of a German fleet with a zeppelin, another in the distance. Inscription below: 'DEUTSCHE FLOTTEN DEUTSCHES SCHWERT-BESCHÜTZEN UNSERN HEIMATHERD 1914-15' (The German fleet, the German sword protect our hearth and home. 1914-15).
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Object Details
| ID: | MEC2447 |
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| Collection: | Coins and medals |
| Type: | Medal |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Creator: | Lauer, L. C. |
| Places: | Germany |
| Date made: | 1915 |
| People: | Zeppelin, Ferdinand Adolf Heinrich August Graf von; Zeppelin, Ferdinand Adolf Heinrich August Graf von Lauer, L. C. |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
| Measurements: | Overall: 33 mm |