Stack's Bowers Galleries (& Ponterio) - February 2024 World CCO Auction, Lot 74598
GERMANY. Weimar Republic. "Code Napoleon" Cast Bronze Medal, 1920. Munich Mint. PCGS MS-62.
Kienast-274. By K. Goetz. Diameter: 59mm. "Wüstlinge am Rhein"-on the supposed sexual crimes against German women by Franco-African soldiers. Obverse: Three Franco-African soldiers-with overt, caricatured ethnic features-dragging and pursuing German women; in foreground, one hand forces sword into a scabbard held in place (itself an allusion to the alleged rape of German women); Reverse: Village scene, ...