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Token - Frankrigshjælpen

Token - Frankrigshjælpen - obverseToken - Frankrigshjælpen - reverse

© Ben Dettweiler (CC BY)

Features

Location Denmark
Type Advertising medallions
Year 1945
Composition Bronze
Weight 12 g
Diameter 31.6 mm
Thickness 2 mm
Shape Round
Technique Milled
Orientation Medal alignment ↑↑
Number
N#
175678

Obverse

Double cross

Lettering:
Frankrigshjælpen
1945
PARIS I KØBENHAVN 9 NOV.

Translation:
Help for France
Paris in Copenhagen 9 Nov.

Reverse

Torches on either side of legend.

Script: Latin

Lettering: USAARLIG VAR DIN AAND DIN ROD DIN STAMME DU GREB MED LÆNKET HAAND DIN FRIHEDS FLAMME

Translation: Invincible was your spirit, your root, your tribe. You grasped with your chained hand the flame of your freedom.

Comments

Sold at Danish banks for 2 DKR to raise funds to aid France after WWII. The verse on the reverse is from a poem by Hans Hartvig Seedorf Pedersen

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Date VG F VF XF AU UNC
1945 

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